| Official Name: | Maceo, Kentucky |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | Kentucky |
| Pushpin Label: | Maceo |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Kentucky |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Daviess |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 3.85 |
| Area Land Km2: | 3.85 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.49 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.49 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 404 |
| Population Density Km2: | 104.90 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 271.69 |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation Ft: | 390 |
| Coordinates: | 37.8639°N -86.9939°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 42355 |
| Area Code: | 270 & 364 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 497423[2] |
Maceo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 404, down from the 2010 census population of 413.[3]
The community was founded by freed slaves just after the U.S. Civil War. In 1890, the Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis Railroad company set up a station and post office there named Powers Station, Kentucky, after Col. J.D. Powers. This name was often confused with another post office named Powers Store, Kentucky. At the suggestion of Post Master Edwin P. Taylor, the post office was renamed to honor Cuban General Antonio Maceo Grajales in 1897.[4]
Maceo is located in northeastern Daviess County at the junction of Kentucky Route 2830 and Kentucky Route 405, near U.S. Route 60, 9miles northeast of Owensboro. U.S. Route 231 diverges from US 60 at Maceo, leading north to cross the Ohio River into Indiana on the William H. Natcher Bridge, which opened in 2002. Maceo has two cemeteries called Kelly Cemetery and Iron Ore Hill Cemetery and a post office with ZIP code 42355.[5]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Maceo CDP has an area of 3.85sqkm, all land.[3]
Maceo is the hometown of country singer Marty Brown and Keith Payne, the author of The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die.