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Greenwood

Ghost town · Lawrence County, Kentucky

Louisa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 1:62,500)
Louisa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Greenwood is a ghost town in Lawrence County, Kentucky. It is one of 28 former communities in Lawrence County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 9th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Greenwood as a historical populated place on the Prichard 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 38.1756° N, 82.6148° W.

Key facts

USGS quadranglePrichard
Elevation567 ft
Nearest living townFort Gay, WV
Distance to it3.9 miles
GNIS feature ID2121007
Coordinates38.17556, -82.61475

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.

Greenwood today, aerial view
Louisa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 1:62,500)

Left: Louisa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1913, 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

Greenwood is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Fort Gay, WV (population 459), about 3.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 567 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 Greenwood?

Greenwood is in Lawrence County, Kentucky, at 38.1756, -82.6148.

How many ghost towns are in Lawrence County?

Lawrence County, Kentucky has 28 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.