Mortons Gap, KY

Mortons Gap is a home rule-class city in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in the United States. The 2020 census counted 728 residents. Via U.S. 41 it is 7 miles south of Madisonville, the county seat, and 3 miles north of Nortonville. Interstate 69 passes east of Mortons Gap, with access from Exit 37, an area which has recently been annexed by the city. In 1936, after the former Morton home was destroyed by fire, the community had the Mortons Gap school built in its location. This school housed a high school until the high school's consolidation to South Hopkins High School in 1955. The through line in Mortons Gap is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Mortons Gap makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Mortons Gap is home to Vineyard Worship Center.