McRoberts, KY

McRoberts is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The 2020 census counted 741 residents. McRoberts is in the Eastern Coalfield regions in Eastern Kentucky. McRoberts is bordered to the southwest by Fleming-Neon and to the southeast by the city of Jenkins. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of McRoberts, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For McRoberts, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. The community is in the valley of the Wright Fork, a headwater tributary of the North Fork of the Kentucky River.