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Gibbs Road

Ghost town · Franklin County, Kentucky

Mount Eden quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1927, 1:62,500)
Mount Eden quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1927, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Gibbs Road is a ghost town in Franklin County, Kentucky. It is one of 14 former communities in Franklin County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 33rd among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Gibbs Road as a historical populated place on the Waddy 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 38.1319° N, 85.0223° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleWaddy
Elevation875 ft
Nearest living townLawrenceburg, KY
Distance to it9.3 miles
GNIS feature ID2569495
Coordinates38.13188, -85.02226

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.

Gibbs Road today, aerial view
Mount Eden quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1927, 1:62,500)

Left: Mount Eden quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1927, 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

Gibbs Road is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lawrenceburg, KY (population 11,838), about 9.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 875 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 Gibbs Road?

Gibbs Road is in Franklin County, Kentucky, at 38.1319, -85.0223.

How many ghost towns are in Franklin County?

Franklin County, Kentucky has 14 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

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.