Sonora Kentucky Map

About Sonora, Kentucky

Sonora is a locality in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 565. The population density is 160.9 people per km². Sonora is located at 37.5242°N, 85.8930°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Sonora is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 42776.

Sonora occupies a quiet stretch of Kentucky where the horizon is defined by the steady, rhythmic rise and fall of limestone-rich earth. It lies 11.9 miles south of Elizabethtown, KY (from Elizabethtown, KY: bearing 189°T), and is situated 9.1 miles west-southwest of Hodgenville. The landscape around Sonora is a mosaic of cultivated fields and dense woodlots, where the light at dusk takes on a pale, bruised quality, casting long shadows across the pastures. A mile to the west, Dorsey Run meanders through the low ground, its channel carving a modest path through the soil that feeds the surrounding agricultural plots. Though the distant Appalachian Mountains remain a hazy blue suggestion on the far eastern edge of the state, the immediate terrain feels intimate and grounded, marked by the limestone bedrock that shapes the very texture of the fields.

Agriculture remains the primary pulse of the local economy, with the daily life of Sonora tethered to the cycles of planting and harvest that have long defined these tracts of land. History lingers in the architecture of the older buildings and the layout of the roads, which follow the natural contours of the geography rather than the rigid geometry of newer grids. On warmer days, residents might retreat to the quiet greenery of Upton Community Park, or perhaps seek the stillness of the water at Sportsman Lake, which lies only eight miles away. To the south, the terrain dips into the low, enclosed basin of Barefoot Hollow, a place that seems to hold the morning fog long after the sun has climbed high enough to dry the dew from the clover and bluegrass.

About This Sonora Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sonora, Kentucky. Coordinates: 37.524226, -85.893019. 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 Sonora includes the ZIP code (42776), telephone area code (270), county seat of Hardin County (Elizabethtown), and school district assignment (Hardin 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.