Nebo Kentucky Map

About Nebo, Kentucky

Nebo is a locality in Hopkins County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 211. The population density is 328.5 people per km². Nebo is located at 37.3832°N, 87.6416°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Nebo is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 42345, 42441.

Nebo occupies a quiet stretch of Kentucky terrain where the land shifts into a series of low, weathered rises that catch the late afternoon light in shades of burnt ochre and deep, bruised plum. It lies 8.8 miles west-northwest of Madisonville, KY (from Madisonville, KY: bearing 296°T), and is situated 6.7 miles east of Providence. Rose Creek traces a winding, muddy path through the perimeter, its currents occasionally silting against the banks after a heavy rain to reshape the local topography in miniature. To the horizon, the Shake Rag Hills provide a distant, serrated edge to the sky, framing the landscape with a permanent, hazy silhouette that seems to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has retreated. The air here holds the scent of damp loam and cooling limestone, a heavy, grounded quality that settles into the lungs and slows the pulse of the day.

Nebo preserves the remnants of an economy once tethered to the rhythmic output of the coal seams that defined the regional industry for generations. Men and women here carry the weight of that history in their walk, a legacy of labor that has slowly softened into the quiet commerce of small-scale agriculture and local service. Residents often travel four miles to the Clear Creek Wildlife Management Area to find a respite in the woods, or look toward the surface of Lake Peewee for a moment of stillness away from the road. Life in Nebo is measured not by the clock, but by the slow rotation of the seasons across the fields, where the transition from planting to harvest dictates the tempo of the year. There is a particular, unadorned beauty in the way the local houses lean into the shade of mature oaks, standing as sturdy, unpretentious witnesses to the persistence of a life lived close to the soil.

About This Nebo Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Nebo, Kentucky. Coordinates: 37.383211, -87.641568. 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 Nebo includes the ZIP code (42345, 42441), telephone area code (270), county seat of Hopkins County (Madisonville), and school district assignment (Hopkins 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.