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Brierly Ridge

Ghost town · Robertson County, Kentucky

Mount Olivet quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 1:24,000)
Mount Olivet quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Brierly Ridge is a ghost town in Robertson County, Kentucky. It is one of 5 former communities in Robertson County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 64th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Brierly Ridge as a historical populated place on the Mount Olivet 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 38.5679° N, 84.0431° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMount Olivet
Elevation858 ft
Nearest living townMount Olivet, KY
Distance to it2.6 miles
GNIS feature ID2556051
Coordinates38.56793, -84.04311

Open the location on a map

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.

Brierly Ridge today, aerial view
Mount Olivet quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 1:24,000)

Left: Mount Olivet quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 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

Brierly Ridge is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Mount Olivet, KY (population 155), about 2.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 858 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 Brierly Ridge?

Brierly Ridge is in Robertson County, Kentucky, at 38.5679, -84.0431.

How many ghost towns are in Robertson County?

Robertson County, Kentucky has 5 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.