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Hilldale

Ghost town · Boyle County, Kentucky

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

Hilldale is a ghost town in Boyle County, Kentucky. It is one of 7 former communities in Boyle County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 52nd among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Hilldale as a historical populated place on the Danville 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 37.6296° N, 84.7578° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleDanville
Elevation943 ft
Nearest living townDanville, KY
Distance to it1.2 miles
GNIS feature ID2565458
Coordinates37.62960, -84.75776

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.

Hilldale today, aerial view
Danville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 1:24,000)

Left: Danville 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

Hilldale is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Danville, KY (population 17,235), about 1.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 943 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 Hilldale?

Hilldale is in Boyle County, Kentucky, at 37.6296, -84.7578.

How many ghost towns are in Boyle County?

Boyle County, Kentucky has 7 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.