Mount Sterling (Ky.)
Item
- Title
- Mount Sterling (Ky.)
- Alternate name
- Mt. Sterling (Ky.)
- Description
- The county seat of Montgomery County, the town was named for both a local burial mound, called Little Mountain, and the town of Stirling, Scotland. The name was misspelled in the act of the state assembly that created the town, and the misspelling was retained.
- Has beginning
- 1792
- Identifier
- USGS GNIS ID: 2404324
- U.S. Census code: 54084
- Parent division/institution
- Montgomery County (Ky.)
- Related resource
- The official website of Mount Sterling, Kentucky
- Latitude
- 38.0648074
- Longitude
- -83.9471878
- Item sets
- Cities and towns--Kentucky