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Montgomery County, Kentucky

35 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases across 1 place.

Research this county

From the record

16 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Kentucky within the United States
Montgomery County within Kentucky

What the record shows

  • 1 place in this county was surveyed for fire insurance: Mount Sterling, between 1886 and 1942.
  • 8 fire insurance atlases survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
  • 282 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 16 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 12 buildings, 3 districts and 1 object.
  • 1 of the 16 listings was added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 33 populated places in this county; 33 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

16

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph PropertyType ListedReference
Bondurant Housebuilding198383002835
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Passenger and Baggage Depotsbuilding199191000431
William Chiles Housebuilding199191000430
Church of the Ascensionbuilding197979001025
Confederate Monument of Mt. Sterlingobject199797000675
East Mount Sterling Historic Districtdistrict199191000433
W. T. Fitzpatrick Housebuilding199191000429
Miss Emma Hicks Bungalowbuilding199191000428
KEAS Tabernacle Christian Methodist Episcopal Churchbuilding198383002836
Machpelah Cemeterybuilding199191000427
Methodist Episcopal Church Southbuilding199191000426
Monarch Milling Companybuilding199191000425
Ralph Morgan Stone Housebuilding198080001658
Mount Sterling Commercial Districtdistrict198080001659
Northwest Residential Districtdistrict198989001422
Enoch Smith Housebuilding198080001660

Bird's-eye views and land ownership maps

1

Drawn when these were printed as single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the original at the Library of Congress.

Land ownership map, 1879 - Map of Montgomery County, Kentucky
Land ownership map (1879) - Map of Montgomery County, Kentucky. Library of Congress.

Photographs from libraries nationwide

1 of 3 shown

Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 3 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.

Hall's Motel, East Main Street, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, Boston Public Library - undated
Hall's Motel, East Main Street, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. Boston Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America.

The county from the air

21 shown

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 522 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 21 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-06-01, scale 1:23600
1950-06-01, scale 1:23600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-06-01, scale 1:23600
1950-06-01, scale 1:23600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-06-01, scale 1:23600
1950-06-01, scale 1:23600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-06-01, scale 1:23600
1950-06-01, scale 1:23600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-10-17, scale 1:60000
1952-10-17, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-05-05, scale 1:60000
1960-05-05, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-06-06, scale 1:60000
1960-06-06, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-06-06, scale 1:60000
1960-06-06, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-06-06, scale 1:60000
1960-06-06, scale 1:60000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1964-11-23, scale 1:24000
1964-11-23, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1964-11-23, scale 1:24000
1964-11-23, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1964-11-23, scale 1:24000
1964-11-23, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1964-11-23, scale 1:24000
1964-11-23, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-10-08, scale 1:24000
1969-10-08, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-10-08, scale 1:24000
1969-10-08, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-10-08, scale 1:24000
1969-10-08, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-10-08, scale 1:24000
1969-10-08, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-05, scale 1:78000
1975-04-05, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-05, scale 1:78000
1975-04-05, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-05, scale 1:78000
1975-04-05, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-13, scale 1:78000
1975-04-13, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

3 stations, 1 gage

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

The 1950 census, district by district

15 districts

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

  • 87-1Magisterial District 1, coextensive with Mount Sterling city: Mount Sterling city - That part of Ward 1 Bounded by City limits; N. Maysville; W. Main; N. Sycamore, Holt Ave.
  • 87-2Mount Sterling city - That part of Ward 1 Bounded by Holt Ave.; N. Sycamore; W. Main; City limits
  • 87-3Mount Sterling city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by City limits; City limits; E. Main, E. High, Willow, E. Main, N. Queen, E. High, Harrison Ave., College; N. Maysville
  • 87-4Mount Sterling city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by College; Harrison Ave., E. High, N. Queen, E. Main, Ward line; E. Locust; S. Maysville, N. Maysville
  • 87-5Mount Sterling city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by E. High, E. Main; City limits; City limits; S. Queen, Wykagyl Pl., Tenney Ave., E. Locust, Willow
  • 87-6Mount Sterling city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by E. Locust; Tenney Ave., Wykagyl Pl., S. Queen; City limits; Ward line, S. Maysville
  • 87-7Mount Sterling city - That part comprising Ward 4 Bounded by W. Main; S. Maysville, Ward line; City limits; City limits
  • 87-8Magisterial District 2
  • 87-9Magisterial District 3: Magisterial District 3 - That part west of State Hwy. 11 to Kiddville Pike, and northwest of Kiddville Pike
  • 87-10Magisterial District 3 - That part east of State Hwy. 11 to Kiddville Pike and southeast of Kiddville Pike
  • 87-11Magisterial District 4: Magisterial District 4 - That part north of State Hwy. 40 and northwest of State Hwy. 213 and Jeffersonville - Levee Rd.
  • 87-12Magisterial District 4 - That part southeast of Jeffersonville - Levee Rd. and State Hwy. 213, and south of State Hwy. 40
  • 87-13Magisterial District 5: Magisterial District 5 - That part northeast of Mount Sterling - Howards Mill Rd. via Ewington and Slate and Little Slate Creeks
  • 87-14Magisterial District 5 - That part southwest of Mount Sterling - Howards Mill Rd. via Ewington and Slate and Little Slate Creeks
  • 87-15Magisterial District 6

Wildfire, 1999 to 2020

63 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 63 of them, burning about 228 acres. None started naturally and 4 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony21
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. Two of them were set deliberately.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 November 2014Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHACKNEY HOLLOW
6 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 November 2020Arson/incendiarism17 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHELBY LANE
30 March 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2016Recreation and ceremony11 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLD RT 11
25 October 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 January 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySPENCER RD.
4 September 2002Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1956 to 2025

60 of 323 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 323 reports for this county, causing 1 death, 9 injuries and about $7,510,050 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Thunderstorm Wind201
Flash Flood51
Hail38
Flood21
Funnel Cloud5
Tornado3
Heavy Rain3
Lightning1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Flash FloodMt Sterling1 killed, 1 hurt, $10,000no account filed
June 1977Tornado (F1)not stated6 hurt, $250,000no account filed
April 1974Tornado (F3)not stated2 hurt, $250,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindMt. Sterling$5,000,000Possible tornado touchdown. Four rooms at Days Inn blown out. Heliy Meyers Furniture Store was halfway knocked down. Tractor-semitrailers were turned over. Jockey International Factory roof was blown off. Margo Auto Part Store was destroyed. Traffic lights were out, and a local radio station was out.
September 2018FloodEwington$750,000Flooding occurred throughout and around Mount Sterling. Four water rescues were performed and an estimated 30-50 homes were inundated by flood waters along with 20 businesses.
March 1997Flash FloodMt Sterling$230,000no account filed
April 2013Thunderstorm WindCamargo$100,000A storm damage survey team from the National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY confirmed that damage that occurred on Ficklin Road between Camargo and Jeffersonville bewteen 658 and 705 pm EDT on Thursday April 11, was caused by straight line winds. Winds were estimated to have peaked between 85 and 95 mph. The straight line winds spread debris out across an area approximately 660 yards in length and about 720 yards wide. Several homes and barns sustained significant wind damage, with multiple trees being felled as well. Two barns, a small single structure and a few tress also sustained damage from the winds on Camargo Levee Road at around 658 pm EDT. The debris field left on Camargo Levee Road was approximately 400 yards long and 100 yards wide.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$100,000Widespread damage was reported by the Montgomery County emergency management.
August 2015Flash FloodMt Sterling$50,000Several roads were impassable due to flooding including the following: Quesenberry Road, Bunker Hill Road, Cecil Pike, Stepstone Road, Howards Mill Road, and Rogers Mill Road. Interstate 64 was covered with flowing water of unknown depth. The 3700 block of Stepstone Rd had waist deep water flowing across it and a person became stranded in their vehicle in swift flowing flood waters near Quesenberry and Stepstone Roads. A portion of Quesenberry Road under the I64 bridge was washed out.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$50,000A tree was blown down and onto Maysville Rd. Traffic was blocked until around 630pm that evening as crews worked to clear the tree from the road. The tree also took down several power lines as it fell, causing power outages for a few hundred customers in the area. Wind damage also occurred at the nearby Judy Drive-In. A barn on Maysville Rd destroyed and another barn near the Somerset Christian Church was damaged by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindJudy$50,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in Judy. One tree was blown down and onto a house. Roofs and barns around the area were heavily damaged. The damage was confined to an area around and within two miles of Judy.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindCamargo$50,000Highway 460 had to be closed due to a building being blown onto it by thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$50,000Trees and power lines blown down all across the county by wind gusts estimated at 63 mph.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindJeffersonville$50,000Numerous trees were blown down county wide, blocking roads. Worst hit area was between Mount Sterling and Jefferson. Camargo was also hit hard.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$50,000Numerous trees down countywide.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$35,000Trees and power lines were blown down county wide. A porch was damaged near Chapel Road near Mt. Sterling.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGrassy Lick$30,000Trees and power lines were blown down on US 460.
July 2016Flash FloodMt Sterling$25,000Water was swiftly flowing over the roadway at the intersection of Levee and Kiddville Roads south of Mount Sterling, making them impassable. First responders reported to a swift water rescue when a man became trapped in his car as it was engulfed by flood waters. Later reports indicated the man was uninjured.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$25,000Widespread power outages were reported throughout northern parts of the county. Power lines were down in downtown Mount Sterling.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$25,000Multiple trees were blown down county wide.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindJeffersonville$25,000Numerous trees blown down onto power poles.
July 1956Tornado (F1)not stated$25,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindReynoldsville$15,000A large chunk of roof was taken out of a barn in an exposed field east of the community of Stoops. Across the street was a second barn on Van Thompson Road with the door panels hanging loose.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindStoops$15,000Numerous trees were blown down along US-60 from 4670 US-60 to the Bath County Line. Portions of the high way were closed for tree removal. A tree also fell on a house in this area, though no injuries were reported.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindJeffersonville$15,000The survey team saw a partial barn collapse with multiple places of roofing metal thrown in an adjacent field. In addition, multiple large tree trunks were snapped at the property.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$15,000A tree and large limbs were blown down in Mount Sterling.
May 2020FloodSpencer$11,000Emergency Management reported numerous instances of flooding southeast of Mount Sterling to near the Menifee County line. Spencer Creek overspilled its banks near Gatewoods Station, flowing onto one lane of Kentucky Highway 713, while Kentucky Highway 11 was impassable in spots nearing the Powell County line. Additionally, Jeffersonville experienced low lying flooding while U.S. Highway 460 was impassable near the Menifee County line.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindBee Lick$10,000A barn was blown down at Route 11 and Van Thompson Road in the community of Judy.
May 2020FloodMt Sterling$10,000The county Emergency Manager reported several roads, including Main Street and Locust Street, closed due to high water. A few downtown buildings had to be evacuated.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindJudy$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts caused significant damage in the Judy area.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindJudy$10,000Multiple trees were blown down on Cecil Pike and Stepstone Road.
February 2000Flash FloodCountywide$10,000Many roads across the county were closed due to flash flooding from several hours of heavy rain.
March 1997Flash FloodMt Sterling$10,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLevee$8,000The survey team saw a large tree trunk snapped and laying on a front porch. In addition, portions of a shed roof were rolled up and another medium sized tree trunk was snapped.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$8,000A tree collapsed onto the roof of a home on Bunker Hill Rd in Mt Sterling, causing damage to the roof and other parts of the front of the house.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLevee$7,000The survey team found a power pole that was snapped and a slightly rotten tree that was split due to high winds.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindLevee$7,000Several trees were blown down along Levee Road.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$7,000Power pole a tree and power lines blown down on Bunker Hill Road.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindJeffersonville$7,000Several large limbs down.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$7,000Trees and power lines down. Winds blew part of a roof off a barn and shingles off a nearby business.
September 2018Flash FloodMt Sterling$5,000Emergency Management reported swiftly flowing water resulting in major road and culvert damage near the intersection of Hinkston Pike and Garden Springs Drive in Mount Sterling.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$5,000Several trees were blown down around the county including on US 460 and along US 60 east near the 4000 block.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindJeffersonville$5,000A roof was blown off a home on Gibson Road.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSideview$5,000Power lines and treetops were twisted off into Aarons Run Road off of Highway 460.
July 1998Flash FloodCountywide$5,000Numerous county roads were water covered and closed.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$4,000The Montgomery County dispatch reported that multiple trees and powerlines were blown down along KY-11 near Mount Sterling. A social media report also showed a truck and horse trailer blown over from the wind.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindLevee$4,000Trees were blown down on old Kentucky 11.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindJeffersonville$3,000Thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage to roofing material siding on a structure on Main Street in Jeffersonville.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCamargo$3,000Numerous tree branches were blown down on McCormick Road.
December 2019FloodMt Sterling$2,500Dispatch reported flooding at Main and High Streets in Mount Sterling.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLevee$2,000A tree was blown down and onto Highway 11 in Levee. Power outages were also reported.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCamargo$2,000A couple of trees were blown down, and some power outages were reported in the Camargo area.
July 2019LightningMt Sterling$2,000Emergency Management reported multiple electrical transformers downed due to a lightning strike.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindJudy$2,000Several large trees down, one on a residence.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$2,000Several trees and power lines down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$2,000Trees and power lines down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMt Sterling$2,000Trees and power lines down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLucky Stop$1,000A tree was blown down into powerlines near the instersection of Rocky Branch Road and Main street, between Jeffersonville and Means.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindJudy$1,000A power line was blown down along the 7000 block of Maysville Road near the Montgomery-Bath county line.

Mines and quarries

2 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 2 workings inside this county. All of them still produce. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Stone, Crushed/Broken2

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
213 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Donaldson Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every populated place in the county

33

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 1 place that was also surveyed for fire insurance comes first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.

The vanished settlements of Montgomery County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Recorded here

Mount Sterling, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets and 8 fire insurance atlases, 1886 to 1942

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.