High Bridge, KY

High Bridge is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States. The 2020 census counted 268 residents. High Bridge lies along the lower reaches of the Kentucky River across from the confluence of the Dix River with the Kentucky. The community is part of the Lexington–Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area. The short version is that High Bridge carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on High Bridge: its past remains attached to the places people use now.

In 1888, the town was renamed for the landmark High Bridge, a 275-foot-high railroad bridge over the Kentucky River. The current bridge, the second one on these foundations, is the highest railroad bridge in the United States over a navigable river. The High Bridge census-designated place consists of the community of High Bridge as well as rural land comprising the inside of the bend on the Kentucky River where the bridge is located.