Hillsboro is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Fleming County,

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

, United States. Hillsboro is located at the junction of Kentucky Route 111 and Kentucky Route 158, south-southeast of Flemingsburg. The population was 4,664 in 2024.

History

First called Foudraysville for the Foudray family of early settlers, it was renamed Hillsboro when the post office opened in 1833. In 1874 a fire was started by robbers, burning several buildings in the center of town, among them being E. G. SHIELDS' store, J. W. CRAIN'S store, the wholesale house of J.A.H. KERNS, and the drugstore of L. J. JONES. The buildings, however, were all replaced after the first fire. In 1917 a second fire burned the buildings located in the same area. Hillsboro Covered Bridge, which is listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

, is located in Hillsboro.

References

Unincorporated communities in Fleming County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{FlemingCountyKY-geo-stub