Maceo, KY

Maceo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. The 2020 census counted 404, residents. 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. The short version is that Maceo carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Maceo: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Maceo is located in northeastern Daviess County at the junction of Kentucky Route 2830 and Kentucky Route 405, near U.S. Route 60, 9 miles 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.