Official Name: | Auxier, Kentucky |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | Kentucky |
Pushpin Label: | Auxier |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kentucky |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Floyd |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 2.49 |
Area Land Km2: | 2.39 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.10 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.96 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.92 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.04 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 715 |
Population Density Km2: | 299.27 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 775.49 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 820 |
Coordinates: | 37.7356°N -82.7661°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 41602 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 21-02764 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 2629568 |
Auxier is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.[2] The 2010 United States Census reported that Auxier's population was 669, of which 661 persons were white and 2 persons were black.[3]
Auxier had its start around 1900 as a coal town.[4] The community was named for the local Auxier family.
Auxier is located along the northern edge of Floyd County, bordered to the south, east, and northeast by the Levisa Fork and to the north by Johnson County. Prestonsburg, the Floyd County seat, is 6miles to the south. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Auxier CDP has a total area of 2.5sqkm, of which 2.4sqkm is land and 0.1sqkm, or 3.85%, is water.[5]