Lexington, Kentucky

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• Fayette 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 166 shown

• AshlandNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Keeneland-Keeneland RacetrackNational Historic Landmark · listed 1986
• Old Morrison, Transylvania CollegeNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• African Cemetery No. 2listed 2004
• Allen, James Houselisted 1982
• Ashland Park Historic Districtlisted 1986
• Abraham Barton Houselisted 1977
• T. D. Basye Houselisted 1987
• James Burnie Beck Houselisted 1982
• Bell Court Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 1980
• Bell Placelisted 1978
• Botherumlisted 1973

Every listing in Fayette County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 25 shown

• 535 West Short Street (Old Doorway), (moved from 655 Price Avenue), Lexingtonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Ashland, Gardener's Cottage, Richmond Road, 2 miles Southeast of Lexington, Lexingtonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Ashland, Ice Houses, Richmond Road, 2 miles Southeast of Lexington, Lexingtonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Ashland, Privy & Wash House, Richmond Road, 2 miles Southeast of Lexington, Lexingtonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Ashland, Richmond Road, 2 miles Southeast of Lexington, Lexingtonfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Ashland, Smokehouse, Richmond Road, 2 miles Southeast of Lexington, Lexingtonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Bodley House, 200 North Market Street, Lexingtonfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Botherum, 341 Madison Place, Lexingtonfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Bryan Station, Bryan Station Pike, Lexingtonfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Cadentown Rosenwald School, Caden Lane, Lexingtonfederal building survey, 14 photographs
• Hopemont, 201 North Mill Street, Lexingtonfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Ingelside, Gibson Avenue, Lexingtonfederal building survey, 6 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Fayette County

Lexington grew from 108,000 to 322,570 between 1970 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.

• 1892 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1952 USGS Coletown quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Coletown quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Coletown quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000

1 chapter about Lexington 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 Lexington in 2014, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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:

• Baralto
• Blueberry Hill
• Brigadoon
• Brookhaven
• Coletown
• East Hickman

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lexington: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Tungsten. 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 Fayette County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexington in 190 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 123 thunderstorm wind, 36 hail, 22 flash flood, 7 lightning. The reports record 4 deaths and 5 injuries. 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 Fayette County

9 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 4,639 issues, 19,631 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: 20 issues spread across its run from 1787 to 1912, 55,272 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 496343. 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.