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Carpentersville

Ghost town · Fleming County, Kentucky

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

Carpentersville is a ghost town in Fleming County, Kentucky. It is one of 4 former communities in Fleming County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 72nd among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Carpentersville as a historical populated place on the Burtonville 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 38.4051° N, 83.6157° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBurtonville
Elevation802 ft
Nearest living townFlemingsburg, KY
Distance to it6.9 miles
GNIS feature ID2355176
Coordinates38.40507, -83.61565

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.

Carpentersville today, aerial view
Burtonville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:24,000)

Left: Burtonville 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

Carpentersville is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Flemingsburg, KY (population 2,967), about 6.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 802 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 Carpentersville?

Carpentersville is in Fleming County, Kentucky, at 38.4051, -83.6157.

How many ghost towns are in Fleming County?

Fleming County, Kentucky has 4 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.