Keene, KY

Keene is a home rule-class city located in Jessamine County, Kentucky, in the United States. The 2020 census counted 99 residents. Keene is home to the Keene Springs Hotel. The community grew up around a stone mill erected in 1794 and was originally laid out as North Liberty in 1813. Keene's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Kentucky setting. The local scoop is how Keene's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet.

In 1830, however, the first postmaster, Ephraim Carter, named his new post office after Keene, New Hampshire, the hometown he shared with local store owner Harvey Huggins. Keene is in northwestern Jessamine County along Keene Troy Pike, 11 miles southwest of Lexington and 6 miles northwest of Nicholasville, the Jessamine County seat. Keene sits on the north side of the valley of a tributary of Cave Spring Creek, flowing west to Clear Creek, a tributary of the Kentucky River.