Marrowbone Kentucky Map

About Marrowbone, Kentucky

Marrowbone is a locality in Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 147. The population density is 44.6 people per km². Marrowbone is located at 36.8348°N, 85.5031°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 41522, 42717, 42759.

Marrowbone emerges from the landscape as a quiet intersection of limestone bluffs and the persistent, winding course of Marrowbone Creek. It lies 25.2 miles east-southeast of Glasgow, KY (from Glasgow, KY: bearing 117°T), and is situated 18.1 miles north of Clay. The earth here settles into the low, shadowed embrace of White Hollow, where the air holds a heavy, damp stillness that seems to slow the progression of the afternoon sun. Above the creek’s steady passage, the ground rises into verdant, uneven folds, defined by the jagged pale stone that pushes through the topsoil like the spine of some buried giant. Sunlight here does not merely illuminate; it catches on the damp moss and the slick, dark surfaces of the waterway, turning the entire basin into a study of muted greens and deep, cooling grays.

Marrowbone functions as a silent witness to the long, slow arc of regional agriculture, its economy tied to the temperament of the soil and the rhythm of rural labor. Generations have worked these fields, leaving behind a quiet legacy that lingers in the weathered wood of old barns and the rusted remnants of farming implements reclaimed by the encroaching brush. While the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains marks the eastern horizon, the local focus remains anchored to the immediate comforts of Marrowbone Community Park, a space where the collective history of the area finds a modest, public center. Life moves with an internal, unforced gravity, far from the frantic pace of the wider world, and even the proximity of the expansive Dale Hollow Lake thirteen miles away serves only to emphasize the stillness of this landlocked hollow.

About This Marrowbone Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Marrowbone, Kentucky. Coordinates: 36.834803, -85.503116. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Marrowbone includes the ZIP code (41522, 42717, 42759), telephone area code (859, 270), county seat of Cumberland County (Burkesville), and school district assignment (Cumberland County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.