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Blackwater

Ghost town · Menifee County, Kentucky

Pomeroyton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:24,000)
Pomeroyton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Blackwater is a ghost town in Menifee County, Kentucky. It is one of 24 former communities in Menifee County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 15th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Blackwater as a historical populated place on the Pomeroyton topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 37.8531° N, 83.5145° W.

Key facts

USGS quadranglePomeroyton
Elevation1,063 ft
Nearest living townEzel, KY
Distance to it4.7 miles
GNIS feature ID2400751
Coordinates37.85310, -83.51449

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Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Blackwater today, aerial view
Pomeroyton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:24,000)

Left: Pomeroyton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Blackwater is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Ezel, KY (population 327), about 4.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,063 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Blackwater?

Blackwater is in Menifee County, Kentucky, at 37.8531, -83.5145.

How many ghost towns are in Menifee County?

Menifee County, Kentucky has 24 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.