Russell Springs, Kentucky

Russell Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Russell Springs added 81 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +11.

Russell Springs covers 4.72 square miles of land, for 595 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Russell Springs is less dense than the typical town.

What county Russell Springs is in

All of Russell Springs's residents live in Russell County, which had 18,458 residents in 2024. Russell Springs holds 15.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Russell Springs

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Russell Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 42642. 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 Russell Springs is

The Census internal point of Russell Springs is at 37.050700, -85.080500. Frankfort, the capital, is 79.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Columbia, KY (4,685 people), 13.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 76.4 miles away.

Daylight in Russell Springs

At 37.05° N, Russell Springs gets about 14 h 43 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Russell Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Jamestown, 4.2 miles away, with 1,884 people.