Utica is a small rural unincorporated community and census-designated place in Daviess County, Kentucky, in the United States. U.S. Route 431 passes through the community, leading 12 miles (19 km) north to Owensboro and 24 miles (39 km) south to Central City. Utica has a post office, a fire station, a cemetery, several churches, a gas station, a store called JR's Market, and a Dollar General store. Utica was probably founded in the early 1800s and named after the City of Utica, New York. Mill Street which is the first side road on Hwy 140 West was named after the flour mill that was located behind JR's Market. Mill short cuts back to US Hwy 431 where it ends. The first property on Mill Street was a passenger train station in the late 1800s to early 1900s that ferried people to the river to