Pine Knot, KY

Pine Knot is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. The 2020 census counted 1,380 residents. Pine Knot is located in southern McCreary County. Pine Knot is bordered to the north by Stearns and to the south by Strunk. The district's comprehensive high school is McCreary Central High School. Pine Knot's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Kentucky setting. The local scoop is how Pine Knot's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet.