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Lebanon

Ghost town · Clay County, Kentucky

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

Lebanon is a ghost town in Clay County, Kentucky. It is one of 11 former communities in Clay County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 40th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Lebanon as a historical populated place on the Portersburg 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 37.1464° N, 83.9048° W.

Key facts

USGS quadranglePortersburg
Elevation1,026 ft
Nearest living townManchester, KY
Distance to it7.8 miles
GNIS feature ID2543104
Coordinates37.14643, -83.90485

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.

Lebanon today, aerial view
Portersburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 1:24,000)

Left: Portersburg 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

Lebanon is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Manchester, KY (population 2,041), about 7.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,026 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 Lebanon?

Lebanon is in Clay County, Kentucky, at 37.1464, -83.9048.

How many ghost towns are in Clay County?

Clay County, Kentucky has 11 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.