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Millerfield

Ghost town · Adair County, Kentucky

Dunnville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1953, 1:24,000)
Dunnville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1953, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Millerfield is a ghost town in Adair County, Kentucky. It is one of 19 former communities in Adair County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 26th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Millerfield as a historical populated place on the Dunnville 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 37.1460° N, 85.1041° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleDunnville
Elevation1,048 ft
Nearest living townRussell Springs, KY
Distance to it6.7 miles
GNIS feature ID2743389
Coordinates37.14602, -85.10409

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.

Millerfield today, aerial view
Dunnville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1953, 1:24,000)

Left: Dunnville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1953, 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

Millerfield is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Russell Springs, KY (population 2,755), about 6.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,048 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 Millerfield?

Millerfield is in Adair County, Kentucky, at 37.1460, -85.1041.

How many ghost towns are in Adair County?

Adair County, Kentucky has 19 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.