Crossings / Kentucky
Kentucky
crossings.
Cities6110+ crossings each
Public crossings1,213at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates28%567 with no active device
Reported incidents199Form 57, since 2016
The federal crossing inventory lists 1,213 public at-grade crossings across the 61 Kentucky cities with at least ten of them. Louisville has the most at 130.
CSX Transportation operates the most of them at 743, ahead of Paducah & Louisville Railway Company at 143.
47% of those crossings carry no active warning device (crossbucks, a stop sign or nothing recorded) against 28% with gates.
Crossing counts follow how much track runs through a place, not how busy or how loud it is. A city with many short industrial spurs will list more crossings than one with a single mainline carrying far more trains.
Every Kentucky city on the inventory
| City | County | Crossings | Gated | Quiet zone | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | Jefferson | 130 | 50% | 34 | 44 |
| Owensboro | Daviess | 57 | 23% | 0 | 14 |
| Paducah | McCracken | 51 | 18% | 0 | 1 |
| Hazard | Perry | 45 | 11% | 0 | 1 |
| Lexington | Fayette | 39 | 56% | 0 | 9 |
| Williamsburg | Whitley | 33 | 15% | 0 | 2 |
| Middlesboro | Bell | 32 | 9% | 0 | 0 |
| Henderson | Henderson | 31 | 32% | 0 | 9 |
| Madisonville | Hopkins | 31 | 35% | 0 | 5 |
| Harlan | Harlan | 24 | 17% | 0 | 1 |
| Pineville | Bell | 24 | 8% | 0 | 0 |
| Shelbyville | Shelby | 24 | 25% | 0 | 1 |
| Bowling Green | Warren | 23 | 65% | 0 | 9 |
| Hopkinsville | Christian | 23 | 57% | 0 | 9 |
| Baxter | Harlan | 21 | 10% | 0 | 0 |
| Russellville | Logan | 21 | 29% | 0 | 1 |
| Central City | Muhlenberg | 19 | 16% | 0 | 0 |
| Frankfort | Franklin | 19 | 16% | 0 | 1 |
| Louisa | Lawrence | 19 | 11% | 0 | 3 |
| Ashland | Boyd | 18 | 17% | 0 | 2 |
| Martin | Floyd | 18 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Princeton | Caldwell | 18 | 28% | 0 | 1 |
| Calvert City | Marshall | 17 | 35% | 0 | 1 |
| Harrodsburg | Mercer | 17 | 18% | 0 | 13 |
| Bardstown | Nelson | 16 | 13% | 0 | 0 |
| Carlisle | Nicholas | 16 | 6% | 0 | 0 |
| Millard | Pike | 16 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Shepherdsville | Bullitt | 16 | 69% | 0 | 8 |
| Virgie | Pike | 16 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Walton | Boone | 16 | 50% | 0 | 3 |
| Girdler | Knox | 15 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Paintsville | Johnson | 15 | 33% | 0 | 0 |
| Shively | Jefferson | 15 | 80% | 0 | 3 |
| South Carrollton | Muhlenberg | 15 | 0% | 0 | 1 |
| Evarts | Harlan | 14 | 7% | 0 | 0 |
| Lewisport | Hancock | 13 | 8% | 0 | 3 |
| Versailles | Woodford | 13 | 31% | 0 | 0 |
| Winchester | Clark | 13 | 46% | 0 | 2 |
| Anchorage | Jefferson | 12 | 83% | 8 | 7 |
| Beaver Dam | Ohio | 12 | 17% | 0 | 2 |
| Elizabethtown | Hardin | 12 | 50% | 0 | 3 |
| La Grange | Oldham | 12 | 42% | 5 | 15 |
| Maysville | Mason | 12 | 67% | 0 | 1 |
| Mount Vernon | Rockcastle | 12 | 8% | 0 | 0 |
| New Haven | Nelson | 12 | 8% | 0 | 0 |
| Providence | Webster | 12 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Franklin | Simpson | 11 | 55% | 0 | 3 |
| Lawrenceburg | Anderson | 11 | 36% | 0 | 1 |
| Park City | Barren | 11 | 9% | 0 | 7 |
| Pikeville | Pike | 11 | 18% | 0 | 4 |
| Augusta | Bracken | 10 | 30% | 0 | 1 |
| Campbellsburg | Henry | 10 | 0% | 0 | 1 |
| Cecilia | Hardin | 10 | 20% | 0 | 3 |
| Greenup | Greenup | 10 | 90% | 0 | 0 |
| Hawesville | Hancock | 10 | 20% | 0 | 3 |
| Jackson | Breathitt | 10 | 30% | 0 | 0 |
| Lebanon Junction | Nelson | 10 | 30% | 0 | 0 |
| Liggett | Harlan | 10 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
| Mayfield | Graves | 10 | 20% | 0 | 0 |
| Richmond | Madison | 10 | 50% | 0 | 1 |
| Wallins Creek | Harlan | 10 | 10% | 0 | 0 |
Only cities with at least ten public at-grade crossings appear here. A city missing from this table has fewer, not none.