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Clark County, Kentucky

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
66historic places
—earliest paper
1793formed
36,972pop. 2020
22cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 66 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Winchester, Becknerville, Pine Grove.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Kentucky is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Clark titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

50 of 66 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

66 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Antioch Christian ChurchWinchesterBuilding1979
Boot Hill FarmAthensBuilding1985
Brock HouseBloomingdaleBuilding1979
Brown-Proctoria HotelWinchesterBuilding1977
Bush, Capt. Robert V., HouseBecknervilleBuilding1979
Bush, Jonathan, HouseWinchester (formerly Hootentown)Building1979
Bush, Jonathan, MillWinchesterSite1980
Bush, V.W., WarehouseWinchesterBuilding2017
Bush-Dykes, W., HouseForest GroveBuilding1979
Bybee HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Calmes, Henry W., HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Chiles, Tarleton, HouseBecknervilleBuilding1979
Civil War Fort at BoonesboroFordStructure2003
Clark County CourthouseWinchesterBuilding1974
Clark, Gov. James A., MansionWinchesterBuilding1974
Clinkenbeard, William, HouseWinchesterBuilding1980
Colby TavernWinchesterBuilding1979
Corinth Christian Methodist Episcopal ChurchWinchesterBuilding2007
Couchman HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Cullom, Frances, Jr., HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Elkin HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Eubank, Achilles, HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Fishback, Jesse, HouseBecknervilleBuilding1979
Gibbs, John, HousePilotviewBuilding1979
Gist, David, HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Goff, Strauder, HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Goshen Primitive Baptist ChurchWinchesterBuilding1979
Haggard, Nathaniel, HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Hampton, Jesse, HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Hart, Gen. Thomas, HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Hickman, William, HouseWinchesterBuilding1982
Hodgkins HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Holliday, Dailey-Milton, HouseBecknervilleBuilding1979
Hollywood SpringsKiddvilleBuilding1979
Hood-Tucker HouseWinchesterBuilding2007
Indian Fort Earthworks (15CK7)Goffs CornersSite1985
Lampton HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Lewis, Alpheus, HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Martin, Maj. John, HousePine GroveBuilding1982
Mound Hill Archeological SiteWinchesterSite1978
Oliver SchoolWinchesterBuilding2004
Owen-Gay FarmWinchesterDistrict1997
Parrish PlacePine GroveBuilding1979
Pendleton, Col. Edmund, HouseClintonvilleBuilding1979
Preston, Maj. Walter, HouseBecknervilleBuilding1979
Providence Baptist ChurchWinchesterBuilding1976
Pruett, W., HouseWinchesterBuilding1980
Quisenberry, J., HouseForest GroveBuilding1979
Quisenberry, Joel, HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Redmond HouseWinchesterBuilding1979
Scobee, Robert, HouseWinchesterBuilding1980
South Park NeighborhoodWinchesterDistrict2008
SpringhillWinchesterBuilding1978
Stipp HouseWinchesterBuilding1980
Taylor, F., MillWinchesterSite1980
Taylor, William, HouseBecknervilleBuilding1979
Tebbs, Stanley F., HousePine GroveBuilding1979
Thomson Neighborhood DistrictWinchesterDistrict1992
Upper Reaches of Boone Creek Rural Historic DistrictWinchesterDistrict2009
Van Meter DistilleryWinchesterBuilding1979
Victory Heights Elementary SchoolWinchesterBuilding2004
VinewoodWinchesterBuilding1977
Wade FarmsteadWinchesterBuilding1979
Winchester Downtown Commercial DistrictWinchesterDistrict1982
Woodford-Fishback-Venable FarmWinchesterDistrict2008
Wright-Evans HouseWinchesterBuilding2019

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Clark was formed in 1793 (1793-02-01) from Bourbon, Fayette.

CLARK created from BOURBON and FAYETTE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Clark County population from 1800 to 2020 (Census historical series).

37k22k7,65318001840188019101920196020002020
1800182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
7,65311,44910,80211,48412,11516,69417,90117,98818,89821,07528,32233,14436,972

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

22 cemeteries and 30 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 22 of 22 listed
NameLatLon
Adams Cemetery37.94286-84.10217
Block Cemetery37.86952-84.10603
Brock Cemetery37.86952-84.10603
Clarmont Memorial Gardens38.03008-84.14937
Cottman Cemetery37.84424-84.01909
Daniel Grove Cemetery37.98313-84.17271
Daugherty Cemetery37.84446-84.06418
Dawson Cemetery37.8423-84.01159
Dawson Cemetery37.90841-84.00575
Dumford Cemetery37.87063-84.07187
Dunaway Church Cemetery37.87845-84.06288
Everman Cemetery37.88952-84.00575
Fox Cemetery37.94872-84.05839
Gist Family Cemetery38.08892-84.16009
Irvin Cemetery37.95218-84.05517
Log Lick Baptist Church Cemetery37.87316-84.02153
Moreland Cemetery37.83872-84.06642
Osborne Cemetery37.89174-84.04381
Parrish Cemetery37.94119-84.07103
Prewitt Cemetery38.04925-84.1202
Rupard Cemetery37.96166-84.05913
Stone Cemetery37.8348-84.01659
Historical populated places — 30 of 30
NameLatLon
Allensville37.89418-84.12778
Centerville38.00772-84.0732
Charleston37.8749-84.22262
Clarksville37.85263-84.07859
Constant Station38.02438-84.20717
Cotton Branch37.87271-84.11822
Ecton Pike38.00557-84.13455
Epperson37.84559-84.06561
Forest Retreat38.01131-84.21551
Fort Barker38.03064-84.02654
Franklin37.97871-84.13977
Greenfield Estates37.99286-84.20854
Haggard37.90746-84.13772
Jackson Ferry37.88739-84.22126
Judianne Estates38.02692-84.23161
Midway37.88096-84.06437
New Providence37.9468-83.9887
Olivers37.88714-84.19088
Pine Ridge37.87144-84.01389
Pretty Run38.0733-84.15815
Providence37.9256-84.2424
Rockwell Village38.02389-84.23489
Saddlebrook37.99799-84.14683
Shala-Mar Estates38.01556-84.22722
Silver Lake38.07766-84.23943
Snowden37.89244-84.03959
Verna Hills38.03264-84.28371
Victory Heights38.00195-84.1939
Wayland Heights Addition38.03321-84.27054
Yorktown38.03828-84.28352

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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