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Chestnut Grove

Ghost town · Whitley County, Kentucky

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

Chestnut Grove is a ghost town in Whitley County, Kentucky. It is one of 6 former communities in Whitley County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 57th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Chestnut Grove as a historical populated place on the Vox 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 36.9252° N, 84.1810° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleVox
Elevation1,166 ft
Nearest living townCorbin, KY
Distance to it4.5 miles
GNIS feature ID2710173
Coordinates36.92516, -84.18099

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.

Chestnut Grove today, aerial view
Vox quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 1:24,000)

Left: Vox 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

Chestnut Grove is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Corbin, KY (population 8,430), about 4.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,166 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 Chestnut Grove?

Chestnut Grove is in Whitley County, Kentucky, at 36.9252, -84.1810.

How many ghost towns are in Whitley County?

Whitley County, Kentucky has 6 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.