BlockKentucky
The archive covers 120 counties in Kentucky so far. Everything below is a work of the United States government or a book published before 1929, and every page links to the record it came from.
What the archive holds in Kentucky
| Records | Count | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Settlements | 5,778 | Every populated place the Geographic Names Information System records, each with the survey sheets that cover it. |
| Topographic sheets | 3,454 | Distinct United States Geological Survey sheets covering those settlements. |
| Local histories | 12 | Complete chapters from the county histories, reproduced unedited. |
| Listed properties | 3,380 | On the National Register of Historic Places. |
| Surveyed structures | 427 | Buildings and bridges recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record, with their photographs and written histories. |
| Words of narrative | 440,390 | Public-domain county history, published complete. |
Counties
120 of 120All 120 counties in Kentucky. Every county below has published records and opens its own page.
| Map | County | Settlements | Listed | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adair County | 64 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Allen County | 40 | 12 | not yet read | |
| Anderson County | 29 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Ballard County | 19 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Barren County | 40 | 37 | not yet read | |
| Bath County | 43 | 9 | not yet read | |
| Bell County | 64 | 10 | not yet read | |
| Boone County | 32 | 101 | not yet read | |
| Bourbon County | 23 | 59 | 16,517 words | |
| Boyd County | 37 | 25 | not yet read | |
| Boyle County | 31 | 99 | not yet read | |
| Bracken County | 30 | 23 | not yet read | |
| Breathitt County | 64 | 7 | 38,417 words | |
| Breckinridge County | 64 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Bullitt County | 44 | 19 | not yet read | |
| Butler County | 70 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Caldwell County | 45 | 11 | not yet read | |
| Calloway County | 61 | 18 | not yet read | |
| Campbell County | 57 | 72 | not yet read | |
| Carlisle County | 25 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Carroll County | 22 | 11 | not yet read | |
| Carter County | 68 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Casey County | 61 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Christian County | 77 | 51 | not yet read | |
| Clark County | 74 | 62 | not yet read | |
| Clay County | 67 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Clinton County | 49 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Crittenden County | 49 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Cumberland County | 33 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Daviess County | 66 | 38 | 22,009 words | |
| Edmonson County | 38 | 21 | not yet read | |
| Elliott County | 41 | 0 | not yet read | |
| Estill County | 75 | 6 | 4,624 words | |
| Fayette County | 99 | 175 | 116,944 words | |
| Fleming County | 39 | 10 | not yet read | |
| Floyd County | 86 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Franklin County | 39 | 53 | 38,843 words | |
| Fulton County | 24 | 12 | not yet read | |
| Gallatin County | 8 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Garrard County | 30 | 67 | not yet read | |
| Grant County | 32 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Graves County | 43 | 11 | not yet read | |
| Grayson County | 68 | 8 | not yet read | |
| Green County | 32 | 47 | not yet read | |
| Greenup County | 43 | 18 | not yet read | |
| Hancock County | 22 | 11 | not yet read | |
| Hardin County | 51 | 89 | 66,921 words | |
| Harlan County | 105 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Harrison County | 30 | 24 | 62,538 words | |
| Hart County | 49 | 21 | not yet read | |
| Henderson County | 29 | 22 | 25,773 words | |
| Henry County | 27 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Hickman County | 26 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Hopkins County | 68 | 30 | not yet read | |
| Jackson County | 83 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Jefferson County | 202 | 526 | not yet read | |
| Jessamine County | 31 | 73 | not yet read | |
| Johnson County | 41 | 36 | not yet read | |
| Kenton County | 63 | 76 | not yet read | |
| Knott County | 60 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Knox County | 47 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Larue County | 24 | 32 | not yet read | |
| Laurel County | 47 | 10 | not yet read | |
| Lawrence County | 73 | 10 | not yet read | |
| Lee County | 33 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Leslie County | 38 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Letcher County | 85 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Lewis County | 42 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Lincoln County | 63 | 22 | not yet read | |
| Livingston County | 27 | 8 | not yet read | |
| Logan County | 83 | 20 | not yet read | |
| Lyon County | 25 | 2 | not yet read | |
| McCracken County | 68 | 34 | not yet read | |
| McCreary County | 32 | 2 | not yet read | |
| McLean County | 40 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Madison County | 50 | 75 | not yet read | |
| Magoffin County | 66 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Marion County | 55 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Marshall County | 58 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Martin County | 19 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Mason County | 28 | 43 | not yet read | |
| Meade County | 40 | 12 | not yet read | |
| Menifee County | 40 | 1 | not yet read | |
| Mercer County | 52 | 70 | not yet read | |
| Metcalfe County | 21 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Monroe County | 32 | 6 | not yet read | |
| Montgomery County | 33 | 16 | not yet read | |
| Morgan County | 81 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Muhlenberg County | 82 | 12 | not yet read | |
| Nelson County | 41 | 44 | not yet read | |
| Nicholas County | 16 | 12 | not yet read | |
| Ohio County | 64 | 11 | not yet read | |
| Oldham County | 36 | 48 | not yet read | |
| Owen County | 33 | 17 | not yet read | |
| Owsley County | 44 | 1 | not yet read | |
| Pendleton County | 33 | 20 | not yet read | |
| Perry County | 91 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Pike County | 193 | 16 | not yet read | |
| Powell County | 32 | 1 | not yet read | |
| Pulaski County | 94 | 43 | not yet read | |
| Robertson County | 12 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Rockcastle County | 35 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Rowan County | 29 | 14 | not yet read | |
| Russell County | 33 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Scott County | 38 | 83 | 47,804 words | |
| Shelby County | 40 | 142 | not yet read | |
| Simpson County | 34 | 14 | not yet read | |
| Spencer County | 14 | 14 | not yet read | |
| Taylor County | 29 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Todd County | 34 | 14 | not yet read | |
| Trigg County | 25 | 8 | not yet read | |
| Trimble County | 20 | 27 | not yet read | |
| Union County | 41 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Warren County | 71 | 102 | not yet read | |
| Washington County | 36 | 69 | not yet read | |
| Wayne County | 54 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Webster County | 33 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Whitley County | 52 | 11 | not yet read | |
| Wolfe County | 44 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Woodford County | 25 | 80 | not yet read |
Settlements in Kentucky
5,778 settlementsNamed places, each with its own page of maps and records. They are listed on the page for the county that holds them, because that is where the rest of a town's record lives too. A place with no page is a place the archive has not reached yet, not a place that does not exist.
Every county in Kentucky, each listing its own settlements.
Provenance
- Boundaries. Census Bureau TIGERweb. A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Place names. Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey.
- Counts. Computed from the records this site publishes, not quoted from anywhere. They change when the archive grows.