Cawood, Kentucky
Census-designated place
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Coordinates: 36°47′2″N 83°13′42″W / 36.78389°N 83.22833°W / 36.78389; -83.22833
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
County	Harlan
Area [1]
• Total	1.46 sq mi (3.78 km2)
• Land	1.46 sq mi (3.78 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation	1,320 ft (400 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	630
• Density	432.10/sq mi (166.79/km2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (EDT)
ZIP code	40815
FIPS code	21-13582
GNIS feature ID	489151[2]

Cawood is a census-designated place (CDP) and coal town in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 731 at the 2010 census.^[3]

A post office in Cawood was established in 1890 by Wilson S. Hensley. He said one of his ancestors was Berry Cawood, a hero of the Revolutionary War.^[4]

Geography

Cawood is in south-central Harlan County in the valley of Crummies Creek, where it joins Martins Fork of the Cumberland River. U.S. Route 421 now borders the southern edge of the community, leading northwest down the Martins Fork valley 9 miles (14 km) to Harlan, the county seat, and southeast across the Tennessee Valley Divide 14 miles (23 km) to Pennington Gap, Virginia.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Cawood CDP has an area of 1.5 square miles (3.8 km²), all of it land.^[3]

Demographics

As of the 2010 census there were 731 people, 292 households, and 210 families residing in the CDP.^[6] The population density was 39 people per square mile (15 people/km²).^[6]