Austerlitz is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Bourbon County,

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, United States. It is located along

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approximately nine miles south of

Paris, Kentucky Paris is a home rule-class city in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and the county seat. It lies northeast of Lexington on the Stoner Fork of the Licking River. It is part of the Lexington–Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2020, it ha ...

and 17 miles east of Lexington. It was the location of a former station of the Kentucky Central Railroad (which later became part of the

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), along the section of line that runs between Paris and

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. The name of the community likely commemorates the

Battle of Austerlitz The Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805/11 Frimaire An XIV French Republican calendar, FRC), also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important military engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle occurred near t ...

. The community also had a post office from 1884 to 1954.Austerlitz - Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer
kyatlas.com, Retrieved 10 December 2013

References

Unincorporated communities in Bourbon County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{BourbonCountyKY-geo-stub