Ludlow, Kentucky

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 8 records

• Central Ludlow Historic Districtlisted 1984
• Elmwood Halllisted 1972
• House at 855-857 Oak Streetlisted 1984
• House at 859 Oak Streetlisted 1984
• Ludlow Lagoon Clubhouselisted 1984
• Ludlow Theater, Thelisted 2013
• Maxwell Houselisted 1984
• Magnus Metal Company Buildinglisted 2023

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

• Elmwood Hall, 246 Forest Avenue, Ludlowfederal building survey, 20 photographs
• Old Closson House, Closson Court & Ringold Streets, Ludlowfederal building survey, 7 photographs

Ludlow fell from 4,407 to 4,385 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.

• 1914 USGS West Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

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 mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ludlow: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Salt, Tin, Lead, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ludlow in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 Kenton County

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 497339. 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.

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.