Pippa Passes is a home rule-class city located along Caney Fork in Knott County, eastern Kentucky, United States.

The small city is located in the mountainous Appalachia region, an area of coal mining.

She solicited funds for the construction of a local post office and the founding of Caney Creek Junior College, which were opened in 1917 and 1923, respectively.

Members of the Methodist church were active in what they called Home Missionary work in Pippa Passes around 1930.

[8] The local police department operates as a combined unit with the college's security organization.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city of Pippa Passes has a total area of 0.44 square miles (1.15 km2), all of it recorded as land.

The racial makeup of the city was 97.2% White, 1.3% African American, 0.6% Asian, 0.6% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and 0.4% from two or more races.