Woodburn Kentucky Map

About Woodburn, Kentucky

Woodburn is a locality in Warren County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 303. The population density is 270.2 people per km². Woodburn is located at 36.8425°N, 86.5275°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Woodburn is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 42170.

Woodburn sits upon a quiet expanse of limestone-rich earth where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered by the jagged shadows of Sprouse Ridge, which remains a distant, hazy silhouette far to the east. It lies 8.8 miles north-northeast of Franklin, KY (from Franklin, KY: bearing 18°T), and is situated 11.2 miles south-southwest of Bowling Green. The terrain here favors the patient work of agriculture, defined by fields that catch the late afternoon light in shades of amber and pale green, while the soil holds the cool, damp memory of rain long after the clouds have vanished. Woodburn Community Park provides a modest, open green space where the pace of the day is measured only by the shifting angle of the sun against the grass. To the west, the land dips toward the quiet, steady flow of West Fork Drakes Creek, a waterway that marks the rhythm of the local landscape with its persistent, narrow passage through the silty banks.

History in Woodburn remains deeply tethered to the iron rails and the industrious legacy of the agrarian economy that first gave the place its purpose. Local life persists in the shadow of these older ties, with the regional character shaped by a legacy of family farms and a stubborn, quiet resilience that resists the hurried clamor of larger centers. While the distant, deeper depressions like Coldwater Hollow suggest the hidden, subterranean character of the karst topography, the surface of Woodburn is dominated by the steady, industrious work of those who cultivate the heavy, fertile ground. Residents move with a deliberate grace, acknowledging the weight of a heritage built on persistence, and the air here carries a stillness that feels both ancient and entirely present, as if the land itself were waiting for the next season to turn.

About This Woodburn Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Woodburn, Kentucky. Coordinates: 36.842541, -86.527494. 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 Woodburn includes the ZIP code (42170), telephone area code (270), county seat of Warren County (Bowling Green), and school district assignment (Warren 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.