Bushtown
Bushtown is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, Kentucky, United States. Bushtown is located on the Dix River 6.6 miles east-southeast of Harrodsburg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in eastern Mercer County, Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Bushtown, Kentucky” and “Bushtown, KY”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Herrington Lake and Northpoint Training Center.
Herrington Lake
Reservoir
Photo: Joshinatorky, Public domain.
Herrington Lake is a 2,335-acre artificial lake located in Mercer, Garrard and Boyle counties in Kentucky, United States. The lake was created by Kentucky Utilities' damming of the Dix River, a tributary of the Kentucky River, in 1925 to generate hydroelectric power.
Northpoint Training Center
Prison
Northpoint Training Center is a medium-security prison located in unincorporated Boyle County, Kentucky, with a Burgin postal address, and near Danville. It opened in 1983 and had a prison capacity of 1,256 as of 2006. Northpoint Training Center is situated 1½ miles southwest of Bushtown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burgin and Bryantsville.
Burgin
Village
Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 4.0.
Burgin is a home rule-class city in Mercer County, Kentucky, in the United States. Its population was 979 at the 2020 census. Burgin is situated 2½ miles northwest of Bushtown.
Bryantsville
Hamlet
Bryantsville is an unincorporated community in Garrard County, Kentucky, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 27 northwest of the city of Lancaster, the county seat of Garrard County. Its elevation is 942 feet. It has a post office with the ZIP code 40410. Bryantsville is situated 4½ miles east of Bushtown.
Clifton
Hamlet
Clifton is a historically African American unincorporated community in Boyle County, Kentucky, United States. Clifton is situated 6 miles south of Bushtown.
Bushtown
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Mercer, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.73063° or 37° 43′ 50″ northLongitude
-84.72911° or 84° 43′ 45″ westElevation
869 feet (265 metres)Open location code
869QP7JC+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 153923117OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Irish—“Bushtown” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “布什敦 (肯塔基州默瑟縣東部)”
- Chinese: “布什敦”
- French: “Bushtown”
- Irish: “Bushtown”
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