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Pecks Creek

Ghost town · Powell County, Kentucky

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

Pecks Creek is a ghost town in Powell County, Kentucky. It is one of 21 former communities in Powell County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 23rd among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Pecks Creek as a historical populated place on the Stanton 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 37.8200° N, 83.8321° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleStanton
Elevation728 ft
Nearest living townStanton, KY
Distance to it2.4 miles
GNIS feature ID2420714
Coordinates37.81998, -83.83212

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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.

Pecks Creek today, aerial view
Stanton quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1952, 1:24,000)

Left: Stanton 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

Pecks Creek is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Stanton, KY (population 3,211), about 2.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 728 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 Pecks Creek?

Pecks Creek is in Powell County, Kentucky, at 37.8200, -83.8321.

How many ghost towns are in Powell County?

Powell County, Kentucky has 21 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.