Kuttawa is a home rule-class city in Lyon County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 649 as of the 2010 census, up from 596 in 2000.

Former Ohio manager Charles Anderson founded the town upon land he purchased in 1866. Originally spelled “Cuttawa” and “Kittawa”, Kuttawa seems to have been the name of a Cherokee village near the site, whose meaning is a issue of dispute: it has been variously translated as “beautiful”, “city in the woods”, and “great wilderness”. The city was formally incorporated by the permit assembly in 1872, the similar year it time-honored its publish office.

In the to the front 1960s, the Tennessee Valley Authority build up a dam across the Cumberland River at Grand Rivers, forming Lake Barkley. Eddyville and Kuttawa were both moved from their native locations owing to the impounded lake.

Kuttawa is located in north-central Lyon County at 37°3′32″N 88°6′49″W / 37.05889°N 88.11361°W / 37.05889; -88.11361 (37.058964, -88.113643). It is bordered to the east by Eddyville and to the south by Lake Barkley, an impoundment of the Cumberland River, just upstream from Barkley Dam. The city is concentrated primarily in an Place adjacent to the western intersection of U.S. Route 62 and Kentucky Route 295, though its municipal boundaries extend southwestward along US 62 and Kentucky Route 810, northeastward to the intersection of US 62 and the multipart Interstate 24/Interstate 69, and along KY 295 as it follows the lakeshore to its eastern intersection as soon as US 62.