Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Fox Chase, KY

Fox Chase is a home rule-class city in Bullitt County, Kentucky, one of the eight incorporated cities in the county and among the youngest of them.

Fox Chase was formally incorporated by the state assembly on March 29, 1983.

The city's land traces back to 1852, when John Turnstall Rogers bought 400 acres from John Anderson, and that land stayed in the Rogers family for 122 years.

The Rogers Cemetery, where John Rogers and several family members are believed to be buried, still lies within the city, one of two old cemeteries on the former farm.

In the 1950s, part of the farm was used as a rock quarry that supplied material for construction of the Kentucky Turnpike, now Interstate 65.

Lillian Netherland Chase, a Rogers descendant who had inherited the farm, sold it in 1974 to developers Phillip Leigh and Harold Meredith, who built an upscale residential subdivision on the land.

The subdivision was named Fox Chase for Mrs. Chase and for the red foxes that frequented the farm.

Residents incorporated Fox Chase as a city in order to preserve the community's own identity as other Bullitt County cities grew around it.

The flooded quarry lake at the back of the subdivision drew trespassers for years, and in 1985 an attempt to fill the quarry touched off a debris fire deep in the fill that smoldered for months.

The 2020 census counted 436 residents in Fox Chase, down slightly from 447 in 2010, in a city of about 0.4 square miles.