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Verna Hills

Ghost town · Clark County, Kentucky

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

Verna Hills is a ghost town in Clark County, Kentucky. It is one of 30 former communities in Clark County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 5th among the 101 Kentucky counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Verna Hills as a historical populated place on the Clintonville 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 38.0326° N, 84.2837° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleClintonville
Elevation1,018 ft
Nearest living townWinchester, KY
Distance to it5.5 miles
GNIS feature ID2508372
Coordinates38.03264, -84.28371

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.

Verna Hills today, aerial view
Lexington quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1929, 1:62,500)

Left: Lexington 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

Verna Hills is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Winchester, KY (population 19,133), about 5.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,018 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 Verna Hills?

Verna Hills is in Clark County, Kentucky, at 38.0326, -84.2837.

How many ghost towns are in Clark County?

Clark County, Kentucky has 30 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.