| Official Name: | Cawood, Kentucky |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Kentucky#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Cawood |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Kentucky |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Harlan |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 3.78 |
| Area Land Km2: | 3.78 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.46 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.46 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 630 |
| Population Density Km2: | 166.79 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 432.10 |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation Ft: | 1320 |
| Coordinates: | 36.7839°N -83.2283°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 40815 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 21-13582 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 489151 |
Cawood is a census-designated place (CDP) and coal town in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 731 at the 2010 census.[2]
A post office in Cawood was established in 1890 by Wilson S. Hensley. He said one of his ancestors was Berry Cawood, a hero of the Revolutionary War.[3]
Cawood is in south-central Harlan County in the valley of Crummies Creek, where it joins Martins Fork of the Cumberland River. U.S. Route 421 now borders the southern edge of the community, leading northwest down the Martins Fork valley 9miles to Harlan, the county seat, and southeast across the Tennessee Valley Divide to Pennington Gap, Virginia.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Cawood CDP has an area of 3.8sqkm, all of it land.[2]
As of the 2010 census there were 731 people, 292 households, and 210 families residing in the CDP.[4] The population density was 39/mi2.[4]