Winchester
Winchester is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Clark County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 19,134 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 16,600 residents
- Description: city in and the county seat of Clark County, Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Winchester, Kentucky” and “Winchester, KY”
- Postal codes: 40391 and 40392
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bluegrass Heritage Museum and Clark County Court House.
Bluegrass Heritage Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bluegrass Heritage Museum is a local history museum in Winchester, Kentucky. The museum explores many eras, ranging from the Eskippakithiki Indian Village, to Daniel Boone and his settlement of Boonesboro, and to the modern day.
Clark County Court House
Courthouse
Photo: GRChistory, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Clark County Court House is a Greek Revival courthouse in downtown Winchester, Kentucky, United States. Built in 1853, it is the fourth building on this site, and still houses the Circuit Courtroom and Family Courtroom for the Administrative Office of the Courts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forest Grove and Becknerville.
Forest Grove
Hamlet
Forest Grove is an unincorporated community located in Clark County, Kentucky, United States. It was also known as Germantown. Note that Germantown, Kentucky is not the same place. Forest Grove is situated 4 miles southwest of Winchester.
Becknerville
Hamlet
Becknerville is an unincorporated town in southern Clark County, Kentucky, United States. It is situated along Kentucky Route 1923. It is part of the Lexington–Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area. Becknerville is situated 6 miles west of Winchester.
Ruckerville
Hamlet
Ruckerville is an unincorporated community in Clark County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Ruckerville is situated 6 miles southeast of Winchester.
Winchester
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Clark, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.99008° or 37° 59′ 24″ northLongitude
-84.17965° or 84° 10′ 47″ westPopulation
16,600Elevation
994 feet (303 metres)United Nations Location Code
US WINOpen location code
869QXRRC+24OpenStreetMap ID
node 153998923OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Winchester” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وينشستر”
- Basque: “Winchester”
- Catalan: “Winchester”
- Cebuano: “Winchester (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Kentucky)”
- Cebuano: “Winchester”
- Chechen: “Винчестер”
- Chinese: “Winchester”
- Chinese: “温彻斯特”
- Czech: “Winchester”
- Danish: “Winchester”
- Dutch: “Winchester”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وينشستر”
- French: “Winchester”
- German: “Winchester”
- Gilaki: “وینچستر”
- Greek: “Ουίντσεστερ”
- Haitian: “Winchester, Kentucky”
- Haitian: “Winchester”
- Hebrew: “וינצ’סטר (קנטקי)”
- Hungarian: “Winchester”
- Ido: “Winchester, Kentucky”
- Ido: “Winchester”
- Irish: “Winchester”
- Italian: “Winchester”
- Japanese: “ウィンチェスター”
- Kazakh: “Wïnçester”
- Kazakh: “Уинчестер”
- Kazakh: “ۋىينتشەستەر”
- Kirghiz: “Уинчестер”
- Korean: “윈체스터”
- Ladin: “Winchester”
- Mazanderani: “وینچستر”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Winchester”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Winchester”
- Norwegian: “Winchester”
- Persian: “وینچستر، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “وینچستر”
- Polish: “Winchester”
- Portuguese: “Winchester”
- Russian: “Уинчестер”
- Serbian: “Винчестер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Winchester, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Winchester”
- Slovak: “Winchester”
- South Azerbaijani: “وینچستر، کنتاکی”
- Spanish: “Winchester (Kentucky)”
- Spanish: “Winchester”
- Swedish: “Winchester, Kentucky”
- Swedish: “Winchester”
- Tatar: “Винчестер (Кентукки)”
- Tatar: “Винчестер”
- Turkish: “Winchester, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Winchester”
- Ukrainian: “Вінчестер”
- Urdu: “ونچیسٹر، کینٹکی”
- Urdu: “ونچیسٹر”
- Uzbek: “Winchester”
- Uzbek: “Wинчестер”
- Volapük: “Winchester”
- Waray (Philippines): “Winchester, Kentucky”
- Waray (Philippines): “Winchester”
- Welsh: “Winchester”
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