Prestonsburg
Prestonsburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. It is in the eastern part of the state in the valley of the Big Sandy River. As of the 2020 census, Prestonsburg had a population of 3,681.
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.- Type: Town with 3,850 residents
- Description: city and county seat of Floyd County, Kentucky
- Also known as: “Prestonburg”, “Prestons Station”, “Prestonsburg (Kentucky)”, “Prestonsburg, Kentucky”, “Prestonsburg, KY”, “Prestonsburgh”, “Surlocks Station”, and “بريستونزبورغ (كنتاكي)”
- Postal code: 41653
Places of Interest
Highlights: East Kentucky Science Center and Mountain Arts Center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cliff and Watergap.
Cliff
Quarter
Cliff is an unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
Watergap
Hamlet
Watergap is an unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. Watergap is situated 2½ miles southeast of Prestonsburg.
Prestonsburg
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Floyd, Daniel Boone Country, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.6671° or 37° 40′ 2″ north
Longitude
-82.7752° or 82° 46′ 31″ west
Population
3,850
Elevation
633 feet (193 metres)
Open location code
869VM68F+RW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Prestonsburg” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريستونزبورغ”
- Basque: “Prestonsburg”
- Cebuano: “Prestonsburg”
- Chechen: “Престонсбург”
- Chinese: “普勒斯頓”
- Chinese: “普勒斯顿”
- Chinese: “普雷斯頓斯堡”
- Czech: “Prestonsburg”
- Danish: “Prestonsburg”
- Dutch: “Prestonsburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريستونزبورج”
- French: “Prestonsburg”
- German: “Prestonsburg”
- Gilaki: “پرستنزبرگ (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “پرستنزبرگ”
- Haitian: “Prestonsburg, Kentucky”
- Haitian: “Prestonsburg”
- Hungarian: “Prestonsburg”
- Ido: “Prestonsburg, Kentucky”
- Ido: “Prestonsburg”
- Irish: “Prestonsburg”
- Italian: “Prestonsburg”
- Japanese: “プレストンズバーグ”
- Kazakh: “Prestonbwrg”
- Kazakh: “Престонбург”
- Kazakh: “پرەستونبۋرگ”
- Kirghiz: “Престонбург”
- Ladin: “Prestonsburg”
- Malagasy: “Prestonsburg, Kentucky”
- Malagasy: “Prestonsburg”
- Mazanderani: “پرستونسبورگ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Prestonsburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Prestonsburg”
- Norwegian: “Prestonsburg”
- Persian: “پرستونسبورگ، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “پرستونسبورگ”
- Polish: “Prestonsburg”
- Portuguese: “Prestonsburg”
- Russian: “Престонсбург”
- Serbian: “Престонсберг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prestonsburg, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prestonsburg”
- Slovak: “Prestonsburg”
- Slovenian: “Prestonsburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “پرستونسبورق، کنتاکی”
- Spanish: “Prestonsburg”
- Swedish: “Prestonsburg”
- Tajik: “Престонсбург”
- Tatar: “Престонсбург”
- Turkish: “Prestonsburg”
- Ukrainian: “Престонсбург”
- Urdu: “پریسٹنسبرگ، کینٹکی”
- Urdu: “پریسٹنسبرگ”
- Uzbek: “Prestonsburg”
- Volapük: “Prestonsburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Prestonsburg, Kentucky”
- Waray (Philippines): “Prestonsburg”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: West Prestonsburg and Lancer.
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