Kettle Island is an unincorporated community and coal town in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.

[2] Kettle Island has a post office with ZIP code 40958, which opened on March 15, 1912.

The first is that early settlers did laundry in a common kettle on an island in Straight Creek.

[5] In 1930, an explosion at the Pioneer Mine in Kettle Island killed 16 miners.

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