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Stewarts Ridge

Ghost town · Logan County, Kentucky

Lewisburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:24,000)
Lewisburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Stewarts Ridge is a ghost town in Logan County, Kentucky. It is one of 29 former communities in Logan County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 6th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Stewarts Ridge as a historical populated place on the Lewisburg 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 36.9667° N, 86.9691° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleLewisburg
Elevation465 ft
Nearest living townLewisburg, KY
Distance to it1.8 miles
GNIS feature ID2743102
Coordinates36.96670, -86.96910

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.

Stewarts Ridge today, aerial view
Lewisburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 1:24,000)

Left: Lewisburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1951, 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

Stewarts Ridge is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lewisburg, KY (population 1,093), about 1.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 465 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 Stewarts Ridge?

Stewarts Ridge is in Logan County, Kentucky, at 36.9667, -86.9691.

How many ghost towns are in Logan County?

Logan County, Kentucky has 29 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.