Verona, Kentucky

Verona is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,545 at the 2020 census.

History
The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky states that the exact details regarding the community's settlement and its founders are unknown.

In its earlier times, Verona was "a thriving business community surrounded by farmlands". The community had a building supply store, a blacksmith, a bank, a creamery, grocery stores, a dry goods store, saloons, tobacco shops, a barber shop, a funeral home, a jail and a post office. The community's post office was opened on March 24, 1834, and Verona was incorporated as a city in 1909. The city's incorporation later dissolved when the community's leadership became dormant. The Walton-Verona independent school district was established in 1954.

Geography
The Verona CDP occupies the southern corner of Boone County, bordered by Interstate 71 to the northwest, by the Gallatin County line to the southwest, and by the Grant County line, following Bullock Pen Creek, to the south. The original hamlet of Verona is located at the intersection of Kentucky Routes 14 and 16, but the CDP includes a larger rural area surrounding the hamlet. It is 6 mi northeast along Routes 14/16 to Walton and 27 mi north to downtown Cincinnati.Walton has the middle and highschool of Walton Verona, verona has the elementary

According to the United States Census Bureau, Verona has a total area of 31.9 km2, of which 31.7 sqkm is land and 0.2 sqkm, or 0.76%, is water.