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Owens

Ghost town · Carlisle County, Kentucky

Hickman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500)
Hickman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Owens is a ghost town in Carlisle County, Kentucky. It is one of 10 former communities in Carlisle County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 42nd among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Owens as a historical populated place on the Hickman 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 36.5503° N, 89.2365° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleHickman
Elevation299 ft
Nearest living townHickman, KY
Distance to it3.1 miles
GNIS feature ID2743915
Coordinates36.55029, -89.23654

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.

Owens today, aerial view
Hickman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:62,500)

Left: Hickman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 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

Owens is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hickman, KY (population 2,033), about 3.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 299 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 Owens?

Owens is in Carlisle County, Kentucky, at 36.5503, -89.2365.

How many ghost towns are in Carlisle County?

Carlisle County, Kentucky has 10 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.