Yelvington Kentucky Map

About Yelvington, Kentucky

Yelvington is a locality in Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. It is a small community with a population of 437. The population density is 222.6 people per km². Yelvington is located at 37.8491°N, 86.9779°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 42355.

Yelvington rises from the flat, industrious stretches of the Ohio River valley, where the earth holds the damp, heavy scent of alluvial soil and the quiet persistence of rural Kentucky. It lies 9.8 miles northeast of Owensboro, KY (from Owensboro, KY: bearing 55°T), and is situated 5.0 miles northeast of Thruston. Kelly Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the landscape, its banks thick with willow and sycamore that trace the water’s slow progress toward the larger river systems. To the south, the horizon is punctuated by the faint, blue-gray silhouette of the Bon Harbor Hills, serving as a distant anchor to a terrain otherwise defined by expansive fields and the low, marshy depressions of Tywhapity Bottoms. At dusk, the light here turns a bruised, singular gold, catching the surface of Kingfisher Lakes and casting long, thin shadows across the dormant machinery of the local fields.

Yelvington maintains a quiet relationship with the land, its economy anchored in the rhythms of agriculture and the steady, unpretentious labor that has defined this region for generations. History here is not written in monuments but in the persistent patterns of the harvest and the small, weathered structures that have survived the shifting demands of the local trade. While the proximity of Kingfisher Lakes offers a rare, stillness-filled respite for those who seek the water’s edge, the daily pulse of Yelvington remains tied to the movement of grain and the maintenance of the homesteads that dot the plains. Life proceeds with a deliberate, singular gravity, shaped by the isolation of the inland basin and the unwavering, seasonal demands of the Kentucky soil.

About This Yelvington Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Yelvington, Kentucky. Coordinates: 37.849144, -86.977855. 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 Yelvington includes the ZIP code (42355), telephone area code (270), county seat of Daviess County (Owensboro), and school district assignment (Daviess 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.