Kenton Maps

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The original boundaries when the county was established, 1840		A corner is lost to Grant County, 1852
Adjustments in the county line since the county was formed; only one change makes Kenton unusual; most counties have several. Not mapped is a small change to accommodate a private property owner in 1866.

Covington, c. 1850


Covington, 1835	Covington, 1860


Mostly Boone, but some Kenton in this 1866 Railroad Map. You'll want the key to what all those red lines are. It's here.	Covington, 1883

Cruiz Creek Railroad Bridge
This is an excerpt of a Civil War map showing block houses built by the US to defend the railroad bridges of the Kentucky Central for being destroyed by the Confederacy. The entire map consists of insets of most of the towns from Benton (the town of Kenton) to Lexington, and is on the NKYViews Map Page.

Philadelphia's D. J. Lake Company put out atlases for hundred of counties in the US in the 1870's and 1880's. These are the Kenton pages from their Atlas of Boone, Kenton and Campbell of 1883.
	Precincts overview


Central Covington	Main Covington	Independence	Koch's Precinct


Ludlow	Rush's Precinct	Scott's Precinct	South Covington


Stephenson's Precinct	West Covington	Patrons, Part 1	Patrons, Part 2


Ludlow / West Covington, 1884	Covington, 1884 (the dashed line is a "Horse Railway Line")	Kenton County, 1889

This exceptionally detailed map of a small portion of Covington is 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 ninety-seven (97!) in the Covington-Newport 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 later sets from 1906 and 1909. Those later sets are available now, in black and white, at the Kenton County Library's site.


Bromley	C0vington / Ludlow
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 Kenton County map at the Corps' site.


Topographic Map of Northern Kenton County, 1914	This hand-drawn map is by Edith Claire George, who drew it in 1923 to go with her history of Covington and Kenton County. Read it here. (pdf)	Kenton Map, 1923

South Hills, 1927


Kenton County, 1935 red lines are roads, black lines are railroads	Kenton County, 1935 Magisterial District Map from 1940	Covington, 1938. Note there's a key to selected attractions.


Northern Kenton, 1930, with some interesting road proposals	Structural Map, 1931


1937 Ludlow Map for 1940 Census	1949 Ludlow Map for 1950 Census
The Census Bureau used these maps for defining Census tracts


Elsmere Map for 1940 Census	1949 Elsmere Map for 1950 Census
The Census Bureau used these maps for defining Census tracts


1948 Fort Mitchell Map for 1950 Census	1948 Covington Map for 1950 Census
The Census Bureau used these maps for defining Census tracts

This is a set of 7.5 topographic maps of Kenton County from the 1950's.

Covington (1950)	Latonia (1952)


Independence (1950)	Visalia (1953)


Piner (1950)	Morning View (1953)


Kentonvale	What would become Edgewood, c. 1930, (Not to Scale) From a Facebook post by Bridget Grady Spears	Ryland, 1946 From a Facebook post by Robert Remley

Fort Wright, 1973


Robert Rennick drew this map of the locations of a number of places in Kenton County which had post offices at one time or another	A map of the various Northern Kentucky Ohio River Ferries from the Facebook page of the Behringer-Crawford Museum


Fort Mitchell / Crescent Springs, 1937	Erlanger / Elsmere, 1937

Not a map, but a photo from astronaut Shane Kimbrough (Wikipedia), of Northern Kentucky. June, 2021.