It is located on the Tennessee–Kentucky state line south of Albany, Kentucky, and north of Byrdstown, Tennessee.

[4][5] Static is located at a crossroads intersection involving U.S. Route 127 (US 127, accompanied by the unsigned SR 28 on the Tennessee side), Tennessee State Route 111 (SR 111; formerly SR 42), and Kentucky Route 1076 (KY 1076).

Byrdstown, Tennessee, however, lies the same distance southwest via SR 111.

Dale Hollow Lake is located just west of Static.

In terms of public schools, the Kentucky side of the Static area attends Clinton County Schools based in Albany, while students on the Tennessee side attend the small Pickett County Public Schools system.