Warfield Kentucky Map

About Warfield, Kentucky

Warfield is a locality in Martin County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 264. The population density is 123.6 people per km². Warfield is located at 37.8443°N, 82.4174°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Warfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 41267.

Warfield sits low against the mud-slicked banks of the Tug Fork, where the water carries a perpetual, iron-heavy silt through the narrow, tight-lipped basin. It lies 45.4 miles south-southeast of Ashland, KY (from Ashland, KY: bearing 165°T), and is situated 14.0 miles north-northwest of Williamson. The landscape here is defined by the steep, claustrophobic rise of the hills that crowd Groundhog Hollow, trapping the morning mist until the sun manages to burn it thin against the canopy. Deep in these woods, the silence is punctuated only by the shift of shale underfoot or the distant, rhythmic clatter of a truck navigating the switchbacks. The air holds a damp, cooling weight, smelling of wet slate and the slow, inevitable decay of leaf litter that blankets the forest floor in shades of rusted copper and charcoal.

Warfield bears the marks of a landscape long surrendered to the extraction of what lies beneath the limestone, a legacy that lingers in the rusted iron of abandoned tipples and the quiet, weathered faces of those who remain. Economic life here has always been tethered to the seams of coal and the slow, grinding turn of the river, leaving the locality to find its own pace in the shadow of the larger Appalachian Mountains that loom on the distant horizon. Life centers on the simple geometry of the valley, where the Kermit City Park offers a sliver of maintained green against the rugged, untamed slopes. Residents move through the day with a deliberate, measured gait, their lives shaped by the rugged isolation of a place that feels less like a crossroads and more like a quiet clearing in a vast, indifferent wilderness.

About This Warfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Warfield, Kentucky. Coordinates: 37.844263, -82.417369. 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 Warfield includes the ZIP code (41267), telephone area code (859), county seat of Martin County (Inez), and school district assignment (Martin 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.