Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
83historic places
—earliest paper
1789formed
26,871pop. 2020
13cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 83 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Versailles, Midway, Tyrone.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Woodford County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1790
1800
1820
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
9,210
6,624
12,207
11,740
11,219
11,800
13,134
11,784
11,847
11,212
11,913
17,778
23,208
26,871
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
13 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 13 of 13 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Allen Cemetery
37.9411
-84.76132
Cook Cemetery
38.13966
-84.85146
Gray Cemetery
37.95066
-84.79177
Morris Cemetery
37.9834
-84.7755
Mount Vernon Church Cemetery
38.10477
-84.65136
Pisgah Cemetery
38.05453
-84.65506
Steele Cemetery
38.04727
-84.74756
Sunset Memorial Gardens
38.15766
-84.80177
The Polk Memorial Church Cemetery
37.97462
-84.75638
Weeping Willow Cemetery
37.85618
-84.73828
Weeping Willow Cemetery
37.86196
-84.74537
Willhoyt Cemetery
37.94696
-84.80975
Zion Hill Cemetery
38.11632
-84.64396
Historical populated places — 3 of 3
Name
Lat
Lon
Hunter Town
38.03508
-84.69967
Jacksontown
38.05111
-84.74259
Sodom
38.1725
-84.70653
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
Historical markers
HMdb link
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