Evarts is a home rule-class city in Harlan County, Kentucky, in the United States. The read out office was opened on February 9, 1855, and named for one of the area’s speculator families. The city was formally incorporated by the come clean assembly in 1921. The population was 962 at the 2010 census.

Evarts is in central Harlan County, in the valley of the Clover Fork of the Cumberland River, where it is joined from the southeast by the valley of Yocum Creek. Kentucky Route 38 (Main Street) follows the Clover Fork, leading northeast (upstream) 21 miles (34 km) to the Virginia border near Keokee, and southwest (downstream) 8 miles (13 km) to Harlan, the county seat. Kentucky Route 215 runs southeast from Evarts up the Yocum Creek valley through Kenvir 5 miles (8 km) to Dizney.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Evarts has a total area of 0.40 square miles (1.04 km), of which 0.02 square miles (0.04 km²), or 4.07%, are water.

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,101 people, 428 households, and 299 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,828.0 inhabitants per square mile (705.8/km²). There were 490 housing units at an average density of 813.6 per square mile (314.1/km). The racial makeup of the city was 94.91% White, 2.82% African American, 0.09% Native American, 0.09% Asian, 0.45% from supplementary races, and 1.63% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.64% of the population.