The Hillsboro Covered Bridge is known locally as the "Hillsboro-Grange City Covered Bridge" in Fleming County, Kentucky.  Crossing Fox Creek, it was probably built in the late 1860s, it was discontinued in 1968 when it was replaced fifty yards upstream by a concrete bridge.

The bridge's timbers are of yellow pine with double-shouldered braces. A single 94-foot  span, it was probably built by the same contractor who constructed Ringos Mill Covered Bridge several miles up Fox Creek. Abutments are of red stone and corrugated sheet metal covers the roof and sides. The bridge was originally double-sided with yellow poplar. The bridge is a good example of Theodore Burr's 1814 patented truss design that employs the use of multiple kingposts. Patent bridges were the "bread and butter" of early engineers who typically received one dollar per linear foot of bridge construction for the use of the patented design.

At the time of visiting Grance City Covered Bridge, the bridge is in desperate need of care.  If nothing is done to this bridge, it is doubtful it will survive the decade.

Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 1976.

Located at:  N38 15.291    W83 39.190     -     WGCB #17-35-05

Photographed in September 2021