Wellington 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 Menifee County,

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, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 460 and Kentucky Route 1693 southeast of the city of Frenchburg, the

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of Menifee County. Its elevation is 1,194 feet (364 m). It has a

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with the ZIP code 40387.USPS – Cities by ZIP Code
/ref> Wellington is part of the Mount Sterling Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History

On March 2, 2012, a tornado struck Wellington and the nearby city of West Liberty.

References

Unincorporated communities in Menifee County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky Mount Sterling, Kentucky micropolitan area {{MenifeeCountyKY-geo-stub