Fancy Farm, KY

Fancy Farm is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Graves County, Kentucky, United States, 10 miles northwest of the county seat, Mayfield. The 2020 census counted 403 residents. Fancy Farm is on Kentucky Route 80 in the rural, far-western portion of the state called the Jackson Purchase. Fancy Farm was settled by Roman Catholics starting in 1829, and is known for being a strongly Catholic area. A newcomer can read Fancy Farm through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Fancy Farm comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The community grew around St. Jerome Church, built in 1836.