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Taylors Mill

Ghost town · Mason County, Kentucky

Springdale quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1929, 1:62,500)
Springdale quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1929, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Taylors Mill is a ghost town in Mason County, Kentucky. It is one of 6 former communities in Mason County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 56th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Taylors Mill as a historical populated place on the Orangeburg 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 38.5751° N, 83.7324° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleOrangeburg
Elevation723 ft
Nearest living townMaysville, KY
Distance to it6.1 miles
GNIS feature ID2362943
Coordinates38.57508, -83.73239

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.

Taylors Mill today, aerial view
Springdale quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1929, 1:62,500)

Left: Springdale quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1929, 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

Taylors Mill is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Maysville, KY (population 8,778), about 6.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 723 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.

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Questions

Where is Taylors Mill?

Taylors Mill is in Mason County, Kentucky, at 38.5751, -83.7324.

How many ghost towns are in Mason County?

Mason County, Kentucky has 6 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.