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| Mason County, as formed, 1789, by the Commonwealth of Virginia, from Bourbon County, VA. | Mason lost area when Campbell was created, 1795. | Mason lost area when Bracken was created, 1797. | |||
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| Mason lost area when Fleming was created, 1798. | Mason lost area when Floyd and Nicholas were created, 1800. | Mason lost area when Greenup was created, 1804. | |||
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| Mason lost area when Lewis was created, 1807. | Mason lost area when Robertson was created, 1867. | ||||
| Since Mason was created so early, most of it's county boundary changes are due to shrinkage by the formation of new counties. In addition to those changes mapped above, there have been minor boundary changes to accommodate unique land owners in 1854 (with Bracken), 1868 (with Robertson), 1888 (with Fleming), and 1890 (with Lewis). | |||||
From Limestone toward Frankfort, 1796.
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| Mason County, 1889 red lines are proposed railroads |
Mason County, 1935 red lines are roads, black lines are railroads |
1940 Map of Magisterial Districts |
Robert Rennick drew this map locating many of the places that had post offices at one time or another.
Maps in this section are from An Illustrated
Atlas of Mason County, Kentucky, published
by Lake, Griffing
and Stevenson in Philadelphia, 1876.
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| Helena | Fern Leaf Precinct | Germantown Precinct |
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| Orangeburg Precinct, town map, and business listing, 1876 | ||
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| Murphysville Precinct, town map, and business listing, 1876 | ||
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| Lower Maysville Precinct | Upper Maysville Precinct | Maysville Wards | East of Maysville |
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| First Ward | 2nd & 3rd Wards | Fourth Ward | Fifth Ward | |
Maysville and Dover
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| Washington Precinct | Washington | Minerva | Minerva Business Listing, 1876 |
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| Mays Lick | Mayslick businesses, 1876 | Lewisburg | Lewisburg business listing, 1876 |
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| Sardis Precinct, town map, and business listing, 1876 | ||
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| Dover town map and business listing, and precinct map, 1876 | |
Mason County, c. 1880
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Maysville, 1940
| This section is a set of 7.5 topographical maps covering all of Mason County from the 1950's. | ||
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| Dover (1952) | Very small tip (1961) | |
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| Germantown (1952) | Maysville West (1952) | Maysville East (1952) |
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| Sardis (1952) | Mayslick (1952) | Orangeburg (1952) |
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| Southwestern tip | Helena (1952) | Southeastern tip (1951) |
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| This exceptionally detailed map of Maysville from 1886 is a Sanborn Fire Map, 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 nine in the set from 1886. They also have a set from 1890 (13 maps) and a set from 1895 (15 maps). |
Highway 68, “the historic highway,” here.
