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City Facts and Resources for Springfield Kentucky!

Information for city fees and licenses, planning and zoning, property taxes, demographics, and other helpful information is provided below. 

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City Fees and Licenses

The City of Springfield levies a one percent occupational license tax on wages, salaries, and commissions of individuals and on net profits of businesses. The City of Springfield also levies a $25 business regulatory license fee. An insurance premium tax is levied based on six percent of the premium in the city, four percent in the county, making the total ten percent for policies within the city limits of Springfield.

City Fees and Licenses
 
Alcohol and Beverage Control
 
 

 

Planning and Zoning [back to top]


As allowed by Kentucky law, the City of Springfield has adopted Planning and Zoning regulations that direct the growth and physical development along orderly and economic lines. These regulations govern all development including but not limited to: subdivisions, infrastructure, new homes, additions, accessory buildings and signs in Springfield. Setbacks and dimensions are relative to the zoning district. To obtain information on the zone affecting your property or any other information, call Springfield City Hall at 859-336-5440.

Planning and Zoning Ordinance

Applications and Forms

Property Taxes [back to top]

The Kentucky Constitution requires the state to tax all classes of taxable property, and state statutes allow local jurisdictions to tax only a few classes. All locally taxed property is subject to county taxes and school district taxes (either a county school district or an independent school district). Property located inside of city limits may also be subject to city property taxes.

Special local taxing jurisdictions (fire protection districts, watershed districts, and sanitation districts) levy taxes within their operating areas (usually a small portion of community or county).

Property assessments in Kentucky are at 100% fair cash value. Accounts receivable are taxed at 85% of face value.

State Property Tax Rates
Local Property Tax Rates

Schools [back to top]

Public Schools
Area Colleges & Universities

Transportation [back to top]

Highways

  • U.S. Highway 150 and Kentucky Routes 55 and 555 serve Springfield. U.S. 150 is a "AAA"-rated (80,000-pound gross load limit) trucking highway, as well as Kentucky 555 which also serves as a bypass around the city.
  • Kentucky Route 55 is "AAA"-rated from its intersection with Bypass 555 south to Lebanon. Kentucky 55 north of Springfield and Kentucky 152 west of Springfield are "AA"-rated (62,000 pound gross load limit) trucking highways.
  • The Martha Layne Collins - Blue Grass Parkway, located 15 miles north of Springfield via Kentucky 555, traverses central Kentucky and provides access to the interstate highway system at Lexington, 54 miles east of Springfield, and at Elizabethtown, 43 miles west of Springfield.

Truck Service

  • Thirteen common carrier trucking companies provide interstate and/or intrastate service to Springfield.
    (Source: American Motor Carrier Directory, Fall 1994)

Rail Service

  • R.J. Corman Railroad Corporation, a branch line railroad, provides the nearest rail service to Springfield at Bardstown, Kentucky, 17 miles northwest. The nearest intermodal facilities are located at Louisville, Kentucky, 57 miles northwest of Springfield.
  • For details on routing, schedules, rates, and services contact:
    R.J. Corman Railroad Corporation
    Vice President-Operations
    P.O. Box 279
    Bardstown, KY 40004
    Phone: 502-348-7444

Air Service

Springfield-Lebanon Airport

Climate [back to top]

Temperature
Precipitation
Relative Humidity

Services [back to top]

Banking
Fire & Police Departments

Deeds and Geneology - Washington County Clerk

Driver's License - Washington County Circuit Clerk

Springfield - Washington County Library

Media [back to top]

Cable and Satellite Television
Newspapers
Radio

Utilities [back to top]

Electric Service

Natural Gas

Water

  • Springfield Water and Sewer Commission
    • Source: Reservoir from Willisburg Lake
    • Treatment plant capacity: 2,000,000 gallons per day
    • Average daily consumption: 800,000 gallons
    • Peak daily consumption: 1,200,000 gallons
    • Storage capacity: 2,200,000 gallons
    • Water pressure: 40 psi to 100 psi

Sewer

  • Springfield Water and Sewer Commission
    • Design capacity: 880,000 gallons per day
    • Average daily flow: 520,000 gallons
    • Type of treatment: Secondary
    • Treated effluent discharged into: Road Run Creek

Telephone
 

City of Springfield
127 W. Main Street
Springfield, KY 40069
Phone: 859-336-5440
Fax: 859-336-5455

E-mail us @ springcityhall@hotmail.com

©2008 The City of Springfield, KY & Blue Springs Design, LLC.
Photos courtesy of The Springfield Sun and SWEDA's Regina Johnson