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Yelvington is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in eastern Daviess County, Kentucky, located about 12 miles east of Owensboro along U.S. Route 60 near the Daviess-Hancock county line.

The U.S. Census Bureau counted 437 residents in Yelvington in the 2020 census, the community's first count as a census-designated place.

In 2020 the CDP had 183 households and 209 housing units, 152 of them owner-occupied, and its residents had a median age of 46.7 years.

According to the Census Bureau's 2020 Gazetteer files, Yelvington covers about 0.93 square miles in total, of which 0.76 square miles is land and 0.17 square miles is water.

Yelvington was settled in the early 19th century by Valentine Husk and James Smeathers, when the area was still part of Ohio County; James Smeathers was a brother of pioneer William Smeathers, who first settled Yellow Banks, the site that became Owensboro.

The community stood at an early crossroads of the Vincennes, Indiana-to-Hartford, Kentucky Indian trail and the Yellow Banks trail, one of the earliest overland travel routes in what became Daviess County.

Yelvington and its precinct were named for Yelvington Overly (1800-1852), whose home and blacksmith shop stood on the site; a post office was established there on June 25, 1832, and operated until November 1913.

The original boundaries of Yelvington were set by the Daviess County Court in 1867.

In its prosperous late-19th-century years, Yelvington supported a hotel, a funeral home, and various stores, along with two whiskey distilleries, including one built in 1879-1880 by C.L. Appelgate and Company.

A raging fire in the late 19th century destroyed most of Yelvington's businesses, and much of its commerce rebuilt a few miles to the east along the railroad at Powers Station, the community known today as Maceo.