Morehead
Morehead is a small city at the foot of the Kentucky Appalachians. The 2020 census puts the population as 7151. It is the home of Morehead State University, one Kentucky's seven public universities.
- Type: Town with 7,580 residents
- Description: city in Rowan County, Kentucky
- Also known as: “Morehead, Kentucky” and “Morehead, KY”
- Postal code: 40351
Places of Interest
Highlights: Jayne Stadium and Allen Field.
Allen Field
Stadium
John "Sonny" Allen Field is a baseball stadium in Morehead, Kentucky, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clearfield and Rodburn.
Clearfield
Hamlet
Clearfield is an unincorporated community in Rowan County, Kentucky, United States.
Rodburn
Hamlet
Rodburn is an unincorporated community in Rowan County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
Morehead
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Rowan, Kentucky Appalachians, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.184° or 38° 11′ 2″ north
Longitude
-83.4327° or 83° 25′ 58″ west
Population
7,580
Elevation
738 feet (225 metres)
Open location code
86CR5HM8+HW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Morehead” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مورهيد”
- Basque: “Morehead”
- Belarusian: “Морхед”
- Catalan: “Morehead”
- Cebuano: “Morehead”
- Chechen: “Моргед”
- Chinese: “莫尔黑德”
- Czech: “Morehead”
- Danish: “Morehead”
- Dutch: “Morehead”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مورهيد”
- French: “Morehead”
- German: “Morehead”
- Gilaki: “مؤرهد (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “مؤرهد”
- Greek: “Μόρχεντ”
- Haitian: “Morehead, Kentucky”
- Haitian: “Morehead”
- Hungarian: “Morehead”
- Ido: “Morehead, Kentucky”
- Ido: “Morehead”
- Irish: “Morehead”
- Italian: “Morehead”
- Japanese: “モアヘッド”
- Kazakh: “Морхид”
- Kirghiz: “Морхид”
- Ladin: “Morehead”
- Malagasy: “Morehead, Kentucky”
- Malagasy: “Morehead”
- Mazanderani: “مورهد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Morehead”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Morehead”
- Norwegian: “Morehead”
- Persian: “مورهد، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “مورهد”
- Polish: “Morehead”
- Portuguese: “Morehead”
- Russian: “Морхед”
- Russian: “Морхид”
- Serbian: “Morehead, Kentucky”
- Serbian: “Morehead”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Morehead, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Morehead”
- Slovak: “Morehead”
- South Azerbaijani: “مورهد، کنتاکی”
- Spanish: “Morehead”
- Swedish: “Morehead, Kentucky”
- Swedish: “Morehead”
- Tatar: “Моргед”
- Turkish: “Morehead, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Morehead”
- Ukrainian: “Моргед”
- Urdu: “مور ہیڈ، کینٹکی”
- Uzbek: “Morehead”
- Volapük: “Morehead”
- Waray (Philippines): “Morehead, Kentucky”
- Waray (Philippines): “Morehead”
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