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Oakdale

Ghost town · Jessamine County, Kentucky

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

Oakdale is a ghost town in Jessamine County, Kentucky. It is one of 13 former communities in Jessamine County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 36th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Oakdale as a historical populated place on the Wilmore 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 37.8648° N, 84.6263° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleWilmore
Elevation897 ft
Nearest living townWilmore, KY
Distance to it2.2 miles
GNIS feature ID2557991
Coordinates37.86480, -84.62635

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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.

Oakdale today, aerial view
Wilmore quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 1:24,000)

Left: Wilmore 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

Oakdale is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Wilmore, KY (population 6,031), about 2.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 897 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 Oakdale?

Oakdale is in Jessamine County, Kentucky, at 37.8648, -84.6263.

How many ghost towns are in Jessamine County?

Jessamine County, Kentucky has 13 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.