Frankfort, Kentucky

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Franklin County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 45 shown

• Liberty HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971
• Old StatehouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971
• George T. Stagg DistilleryNational Historic Landmark · listed 2001
• George F. Berry Houselisted 2002
• Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfortlisted 1997
• Confederate Monument in Frankfortlisted 1997
• Corner in Celebrities Historic Districtlisted 1971
• Frankfort Cemetery and Chapellisted 1974
• Frankfort Storage Building-Armorylisted 2002
• Glen Willislisted 1972
• Gooch Houselisted 1980
• Jackson Hall, Kentucky State Universitylisted 1973

Every listing in Franklin County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 records

• 100-104 Broadway (Commercial), Frankfortfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• 116 East Main Street (House), Frankfortfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• 402-404 High Street (House), Frankfortfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• 406-408 High Street (House), Frankfortfederal building survey, 10 photographs
• 410 High Street (House), Frankfortfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• 412 High Street (House), Frankfortfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Church of the Good Shepherd, Frankfortfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Liberty Hall, Main & Wilkinson Streets, Frankfortfederal building survey, 36 photographs
• Old State House, Broadway, bounded by Madison, Clinton & Lewis Streets, Frankfortfederal building survey, 24 photographs
• Orlando Brown House, 202 Wilkinson Street, Frankfortfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Red Bridge, Spanning North Benson Creek, Frankfortfederal building survey, 13 photographs
• Reverend Jessie R. Ziegler House, 509 Shelby Street, Frankfortfederal building survey, 14 photographs

Frankfort grew from 25,527 to 28,602 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1922 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:48000
• 1924 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Frankfort East quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Frankfort East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
• 1970 USGS Frankfort East quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000
• 1996 USGS Frankfort East quadrangle1:24000

1 chapter about Frankfort from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Frankfort in 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Big Eddy
• Bon Air Hills
• Evergreen
• Farmdale
• Fox Gap (historical)
• Indian Hills

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Frankfort: 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankfort in 84 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 50 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 9 flash flood, 2 flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Franklin County

3 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 926 issues, 6,420 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 12 issues spread across its run from 1879 to 1908, 27,405 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 517517. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.