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Greenup County, Kentucky

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
20historic places
—earliest paper
1804formed
35,962pop. 2020
70cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 20 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Greenup, South Portsmouth, Wurtland.

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 Greenup titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

12 of 20 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

20 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Bennett's Mill Covered BridgeGreenupStructure1976
Front Street DistrictGreenupDistrict1988
General U.S. Grant BridgeSouth PortsmouthStructure2001
Greenup Masonic LodgeGreenupBuilding1988
KY 2541 BridgeGreenupStructure1988
Kouns-Hoffman HouseGreenupBuilding1988
Lower ShawneetownSouth PortsmouthSite1983
Lower Shawneetown Archeological DistrictSouth PortsmouthDistrict1985
McConnell House, Law Office, and Slave QuartersWurtlandBuilding1975
McKee HouseGreenupBuilding1988
Methodist Episcopal Church SouthGreenupBuilding1988
Oldtown Covered BridgeOldtownStructure1976
Portsmouth Earthworks, Group ASouth PortsmouthSite1980
Russell Railroad YMCARussellBuilding2001
South Greenup DistrictGreenupDistrict1988
Stuart, Jesse, HouseGreenupBuilding1982
Warnock HouseGreenupBuilding1988
West Main Street DistrictGreenupDistrict1988
Worthington HouseGreenupBuilding1988
Wurtland Union ChurchWurtlandBuilding2008

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Greenup was formed in 1804 (1804-02-01) from Mason.

GREENUP created from MASON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Greenup County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

39k21k2,3691810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
2,3694,3116,2978,76013,37115,43220,06224,91724,88729,23839,13236,89135,962

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

70 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 70 of 70 listed
NameLatLon
Allen Cemetery38.57184-83.07444
Baldridge Cemetery38.50857-82.73259
Barber Cemetery38.53307-82.78885
Bays Cemetery38.48652-82.92865
Bellefonte Memorial Gardens38.51549-82.70664
Bellow Cemetery38.42362-82.92238
Bradford Cemetery38.40258-82.91907
Bradley Cemetery38.56519-83.04054
Brown Cemetery38.47841-82.88655
Buffalo Cemetery38.48214-82.88658
Callihan Cemetery38.44058-82.8637
Cane Creek Cemetery38.38813-82.84238
Caroline Cemetery38.52793-82.74617
Cochran Cemetery38.55091-82.77624
Collier Memorial Garden38.71146-83.01989
Davis Cemetery38.55729-83.02878
Fannin Cemetery38.62674-82.94989
Felty Cemetery38.41119-82.90025
Floyd Cemetery38.39941-82.96732
Gillem Cemetery38.58701-83.00767
Green Cemetery38.52603-82.82463
Grizzle Cemetery38.49647-82.82405
Hales CemeteryNoneNone
Hall Cemetery38.40673-82.90114
Hartley Cemetery38.44157-82.92892
Heaberlin Cemetery38.53908-82.77369
Heineman Cemetery38.58005-82.91013
Hickory Flat Cemetery38.41551-82.97279
Hilton Cemetery38.50668-82.92185
Holley Cemetery38.57924-83.01822
Howard Cemetery38.45651-82.84706
Howe Cemetery38.63012-82.99333
Hunnewell Cemetery38.42091-82.84322
Johnson Cemetery38.48205-82.94799
Johnson GravesNoneNone
Kaut Cemetery38.53994-82.86921
Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Northeast38.38379-82.81968
Lawhorn Cemetery38.51483-82.92093
Logan Cemetery38.54285-83.09962
Loper Cemetery38.62257-83.05684
Martin Cemetery38.39976-82.90647
McCoy Cemetery38.53782-82.7445
McGinnis Cemetery38.5046-82.95517
McGuire Cemetery38.52118-82.85933
Meadows Cemetery38.51638-82.96014
Melvin Cemetery38.51344-82.78558
Nichols Cemetery38.54716-82.97242
Norris Cemetery38.40746-82.91073
Obryan Cemetery38.50403-82.69925
Palmer Cemetery38.51538-82.7049
Pennington Cemetery38.53869-82.79627
Pierce Cemetery38.40358-82.95292
Quillen Cemetery38.56824-82.94778
Reeves Cemetery38.48161-82.85405
Rhoden Cemetery38.50838-83.0857
Riffe Cemetery38.40563-82.93599
Riffit Cemetery38.46173-82.9816
Riverview Cemetery38.57157-82.83888
Rose Cemetery38.4944-82.93764
Rude Cemetery38.52443-82.73075
Smith Cemetery38.40713-82.95617
Sparks Cemetery38.58979-83.01211
Tumbleson CemeteryNoneNone
Walker Cemetery38.54563-82.75849
Waring Cemetery38.59769-82.94504
Warnock Cemetery Number 138.4796-82.97937
Whitt Cemetery38.55926-83.0174
Winters CemeteryNoneNone
Womack Cemetery38.55702-82.85739
Worthington Cemetery38.56832-82.83342

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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