Morehead, Kentucky

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• Rowan 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 14 shown

• Downtown Morehead Historic Districtlisted 2022
• Haldeman Voting House No. 8listed 1998
• Hayes Voting House No. 16listed 1998
• Morehead Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Freight Depotlisted 2016
• Morehead State Universitylisted 1994
• Morehead Voting House No. 10listed 1998
• Rowan County Courthouselisted 2017
• Brushy Voting House No. 6listed 1998
• Cranston Voting House No. 12listed 1998
• Farmers Voting House No. 2listed 1998
• Hogtown Voting House No. 4listed 1998
• Morehead Voting House No. 7listed 1998

Every listing in Rowan County

Morehead grew from 6,845 to 7,151 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.

• 1929 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:48000
• 1935 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1970 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

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 95 fires within 5 miles of Morehead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,008 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 were 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:

• Brady
• Christy
• Rodburn
• Clearfield
• Cranston
• Gates

Every fire recorded in Rowan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Morehead: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Rowan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morehead in 95 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 51 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 15 flash flood, 3 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 Rowan 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 514051. 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.