Cumberland River
Dycusburg is located near the southern tip of Crittenden County at (37.160017, -88.184952), on the east bank of the Cumberland River. It is north of Lake Barkley, the reservoir on the Cumberland River that forms part of the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, and east by air ( by road) of Smithland, Kentucky, where the Cumberland River joins the Ohio. Dycusburg is the site of a former ferry across the Cumberland River, which closed in 1951.