Beaver Dam, Kentucky

Beaver Dam population, 2020 to 2024

Beaver Dam added 1 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +21.

Beaver Dam covers 3.04 square miles of land, for 1,163 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Beaver Dam is less dense than the typical town.

What county Beaver Dam is in

All of Beaver Dam's residents live in Ohio County, which had 23,933 residents in 2024. Beaver Dam holds 14.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Beaver Dam

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Beaver Dam by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 42320. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Beaver Dam is

The Census internal point of Beaver Dam is at 37.403800, -86.873600. Frankfort, the capital, is 121.8 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Central City, KY (5,744 people), 15.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Evansville, IN, 54.2 miles away.

Daylight in Beaver Dam

At 37.40° N, Beaver Dam gets about 14 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Beaver Dam

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Hartford, 3.5 miles away, with 2,652 people.