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Caneyville is a home rule-class city in Grayson County, Kentucky, in the west-central part of the state.

Caneyville was named for its location on Caney Creek; it had a post office by 1837 and a town charter by 1840, and it was formally incorporated by the state legislature in 1880.

The 2020 census counted 529 residents in Caneyville.

Caney Creek is formed in the northern part of Caneyville at the junction of its North and South Forks and flows west as a tributary of the Rough River, whose waters reach the Green River and ultimately the Ohio River.

U.S. Route 62 passes through the center of Caneyville, leading east about 14 miles to Leitchfield, the Grayson County seat; the city is also served by the Western Kentucky Parkway and Kentucky Routes 79 and 185.

Caneyville sits on the Paducah and Louisville Railway, a short-line railroad operating over a former Illinois Central Railroad route.

In the 2000 census, Caneyville had 627 residents living in 281 households, with 321 housing units in the city.

The Caneyville Christian Community, an Old Order Anabaptist horse-and-buggy community of about 15 families that belongs to neither the Amish nor the Old Order Mennonites, is based in Caneyville and supports itself through produce sales and the manufacture of wood stoves.

The former Caneyville High School, despite its small enrollment, was famous for its boys' basketball team, which reached Kentucky's Sweet Sixteen state tournament in both 1962 and 1968.

Caneyville is about 15 miles south of Rough River Dam State Resort Park, and the Pine Knob Theatre, an outdoor dinner theater, operates between Caneyville and Rough River Lake.