
Morehead
United States
Morehead: facts
At a glance
- Country: United States
- Region: Kentucky
- Administrative status: seat of a second-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA2)
- Population: approximately 7,045
- Coordinates: 38.1840° N, 83.4327° W
- Time zone: America/New_York (UTC-05:00 standard, UTC-04:00 daylight saving time)
- Currency: Dollar (USD)
- Distance to the capital, Washington: 562 km (349 mi), straight line
Getting there
- Tri-State Airport / Milton J. Ferguson Field (HTS): 79 km (49 mi), straight line
- Blue Grass Airport (LEX): 104 km (65 mi), straight line
- Cincinnati Municipal Airport Lunken Field (LUK): 133 km (83 mi), straight line
Nearby
- Sandy Hook: 29 km (18 mi)
- Owingsville: 29 km (18 mi)
- Frenchburg: 31 km (19 mi)
- West Liberty: 33 km (20 mi)
- Flemingsburg: 37 km (23 mi)
- Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: Meads, 68 km (42 mi)
Coming up in Morehead
- 11 Nov 2026: Veterans Day
- 26 Nov 2026: Thanksgiving Day
- 27 Nov 2026: Black Friday
- 24 Dec 2026: Christmas Eve
- 25 Dec 2026: Christmas Day
- 31 Dec 2026: New Year's Eve
- 1 Jan 2027: New Year's Day
- 18 Jan 2027: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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