Sturgus Station was named for Peter A'Sturgus, an early Kentucky pioneer who settled on a 2,000-acre tract of land surveyed in 1774 and granted to Col. William Christian by patent dated June 2, 1780. It was one of the five important pioneer stations on the Middle Fork of Beargrass Creek shown on John Filson's 1784 map. In 1780 it was a considerable fort and settlement of some twenty to forty families.