Campbell County was formed from parts of Harrison, Scott and Mason Counties, 1795. | Area lost to formation of Bracken, 1797. | Area lost to formation of Pendleton, 1799. | ||
Area lost to formation of Boone, 1798. | Area lost to formation of Kenton, 1840. | |||
Adjustments to Campbell County boundaries since inception. Unmapped is this minor revision in 1854. There's also a small conveyance to Grant County in 1831, before Kenton split off. |
Brooklyn & Jamestown, 1860 | Newport, 1860 | Dayton & Bellevue, 1884 |
Newport, 1884 |
These Campbell Co. maps were drawn before Newport re-named many of its streets in 1890. |
1884 Flood Map
This exceptionally detailed map of Newport from 1886 is a Sanborn Fire Map. They were originally created to assist insurance companies to assess risk for underwriting fire insurance, hence “fire maps.” We've downloaded this single page from the Library of Congress' site for Sanborns. This map is one of twenty-six in the set from 1886. You can download them all in incredible detail. Check back from time to time at their site, to see if they digitize the Newport sets from 1910, and the 1886 set from Dayton. |
Mentor | California | Oneonta | Ross |
Silver Grove | Brent | Dayton/Bellevue | Newport |
In 1911-1914 the Corps of Engineers mapped the entire length of the Ohio River. You can see the whole thing, from Pittsburg to Cairo, at their web site. Clicking the maps shown here will take you to the appropriate Campbell County map at the Corps' site. |
1914. With Baby Farms.
Campbell County, 1889 |
Northern Campbell |
A Campbell-Kenton Reconnaissance Map, 1923 |
Fort Thomas, 1909
Census Tracts, Fort Thomas, June, 1932; Rev. 1947 | |
Campbell County, |
Campbell County, 1935 |
Campbell County | A 1948 map locating many Campbell County businesses in Newport, Bellevue and Dayton |
Portion of Campbell County in a 1914 topographical map
Northwestern Tip (1950) | Newport (1952) | Melbourne (1953) | |
Alexandria (1953) | California (1953) | Mentor (1953) | |
Grants Lick (1953) | Wesley Chapel (1953) | Southeastern Tip (1953) |
A map of where there have been, at one time or another, many of the post offices in Campbell County.
A map by Robert Rennick