Verona is an

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and

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(CDP) in Boone County,

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, United States. The population was 1,545 at the 2020 census.

History

The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky states that the exact details regarding the community's settlement and its founders are unknown. In its earlier times, Verona was "a thriving business community surrounded by farmlands". The community had a building supply store, a blacksmith, a bank, a creamery, grocery stores, a dry goods store, saloons, tobacco shops, a barber shop, a funeral home, a jail and a post office. The community's post office was opened on March 24, 1834, and Verona was incorporated as a city in 1909. The city's incorporation later dissolved when the community's leadership became dormant. The Walton-Verona independent school district was established in 1954.

Geography

The Verona CDP occupies the southern corner of Boone County, bordered by

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to the northwest, by the Gallatin County line to the southwest, and by the

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line, following Bullock Pen Creek, to the south. The original hamlet of Verona is located at the intersection of Kentucky Routes 14 and 16, but the CDP includes a larger rural area surrounding the hamlet. It is northeast along Routes 14/16 to Walton and north to downtown

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.Walton has the middle and highschool of Walton Verona, verona has the elementary According to the

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, Verona has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.76%, is water.

Demographics

References

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