Sulphur Lick, Kentucky

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Sulphur Lick is a rural, unincorporated community in northwestern Monroe County, Kentucky, United States. It sits at the crossing of Kentucky Route 678 and Kentucky Route 839. The place was named for mineral licks on Sulphur Creek (now called Skaggs Creek), where buffalo, deer, and other animals would come to lick the salt and sulfur from the rocks. A sulfur spring is located within about one mile of the community. The area observes Central Time (CST in winter and CDT in summer) and has the ZIP code 42167.