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Leslie County, Kentucky

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1878formed

10,513pop. 2020

21cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Hyden, Dryhill, Chappell.

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 Leslie titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Frontier Nursing Service	Hyden	District	1991
McIntosh, Roderick, Farm	Dryhill	Building	1991
Shell, John, Cabin	Chappell	Building	1975
Wendover NHL	Hyden	Building	1975
Wooton Presbyterian Center	Wooton	Building	1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Leslie was formed in 1878 (1878-04-15) from Clay, Perry.

LESLIE created from CLAY and PERRY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Leslie County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,740	6,753	10,097	14,981	15,537	10,941	14,882	12,401	10,513

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

21 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 21 of 21 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Begley Cemetery	37.15036	-83.39935
Couch Cemetery	37.16925	-83.47574
Creech Cemetery	37.16564	-83.3049
Days Cemetery	37.13564	-83.25851
Dixon Cemetery	37.16286	-83.29656
Halls Rest Haven	37.00258	-83.43824
Hardy Bottom Cemetery	37.11036	-83.35795
Hendrix Cemetery	37.1837	-83.25712
Honey Branch Cemetery	36.90647	-83.47268
Huff Cemetery	36.97536	-83.27267
Hurricane Cemetery	37.14453	-83.32406
Lewis Cemetery	37.16008	-83.37212
Raccoon Cemetery	37.1287	-83.30323
Roberts Cemetery	37.16536	-83.35823
Roberts Cemetery	37.16564	-83.55074
Sizemore Cemetery	37.15786	-83.43907
Skeens Cemetery	37.15703	-83.31934
Steele Cemetery	37.16953	-83.40685
Woods Cemetery	37.1787	-83.42185
Woods Cemetery	37.21759	-83.38712
Woods Keen Cemetery	37.22092	-83.37768

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Grassy	37.2476	-83.35374
Hendrix	37.18025	-83.2637
Lower McIntosh	37.2065	-83.33289
Upper Laurel Fork	36.94734	-83.31971

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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