Upton Kentucky Map

About Upton, Kentucky

Upton is a locality in Larue County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 704. The population density is 200.2 people per km². Upton is located at 37.4651°N, 85.8933°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Upton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 42784.

Upton emerges from the limestone-heavy soil of the Kentucky interior, where the horizon stretches into a wide, quiet geometry of pasture and oak-studded woodland. It lies 15.9 miles south of Elizabethtown, KY (from Elizabethtown, KY: bearing 187°T), and is situated 11.3 miles southwest of Hodgenville. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar, syrupy quality during the late afternoon, catching the lime-dusted fields and casting long, sharp shadows that emphasize the subtle dip of the terrain toward the nearby Sandy Creek. While the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains marks the far eastern boundary of the state, the immediate topography remains defined by the modest, earthbound undulations of the local basin, Barefoot Hollow, which cradles the damp, cool air after sunset. Within the center of these fields, Upton Community Park provides a green, manicured anchor for the landscape, its open spaces offering a place where the stillness of the countryside is occasionally broken by the low, rhythmic hum of migrating insects or the shifting of wind through the tall, dry grasses.

Agriculture has long anchored the character of Upton, dictating the slow, seasonal pulse of life that persists despite the encroaching pace of the modern world. The local economy remains tethered to the productivity of the land, drawing on the deep, mineral-rich earth that has supported generations of families who cultivate the surrounding acreage with quiet, enduring persistence. Though Nichols Lake remains a distant mirror for the sky ten miles away, the daily existence of those here is shaped more by the immediate demands of the soil and the legacy of early rural development. Life in Upton moves with an unforced cadence, where the history of the region is felt in the fading paint of old barns and the sturdy, unadorned architecture that defines the streetscape. The air carries a scent of damp loam and curing forage, a sensory reminder of a place that values the steady, repetitive labor of the seasons over the restlessness of more crowded horizons.

About This Upton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Upton, Kentucky. Coordinates: 37.465058, -85.893298. 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 Upton includes the ZIP code (42784), telephone area code (270), county seat of Larue County (Hodgenville), 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.