Chaplin is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

in Nelson County,

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, United States. Its population was 418 as of the 2010 census. Chaplin has a

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with ZIP code 40012, which opened on January 4, 1832. U.S. Route 62 passes through the community.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has an area of ; of its area are land, and is covered by water.

Demographics

References

Unincorporated communities in Nelson County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky Census-designated places in Nelson County, Kentucky Census-designated places in Kentucky {{NelsonCountyKY-geo-stub