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Five Lick Creek

Ghost town · Robertson County, Kentucky

Maysville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500)
Maysville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Five Lick Creek 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 Five Lick Creek as a historical populated place on the Sardis 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 38.5126° N, 83.9625° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleSardis
Elevation726 ft
Nearest living townSardis, KY
Distance to it1.6 miles
GNIS feature ID2556047
Coordinates38.51257, -83.96253

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.

Five Lick Creek today, aerial view
Maysville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500)

Left: Maysville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500), 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

Five Lick Creek is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Sardis, KY (population 59), about 1.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 726 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 Five Lick Creek?

Five Lick Creek is in Robertson County, Kentucky, at 38.5126, -83.9625.

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.