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Welcome to the Fayette County Clerk's Office. Our goal is that you will be able to easily find the information you are seeking on this site.

Fayette County is one of the three original Kentucky counties, established in 1780; twelve years before Kentucky became the fifteenth state. Fayette County is named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette. The Lexington city government and Fayette county government merged January 1, 1974 to form the Lexington Fayette Urban Government.

The current Fayette County Clerk is Don Blevins. He has been clerk since 1981 and is serving his seventh term that will expire in January 2011.