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Kentucky Counties

Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, third in the U.S. behind Texas's 254 and Georgia's 159.

Breckinridge County, Kentucky

Breckinridge County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Hardinsburg
Year Organized: 1800
Square Miles: 572

Court House:

P.O. Box 227
County Courthouse Annex
Hardinsburg, KY 40143-0227

Etymology - Origin of County Name

John Breckinridge (1760-1806), Kentucky Attorney General, legislator, US Senator, US Attorney General.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Breckinridge county was formed in 1800. It is located in the Pennyrile region of the state. The elevation in the county ranges from 383 to 920 feet above sea level. In 2000 the county population was 18,648 in a land area of 572.41 square miles, an average of 32.6 people per square mile. The county seat is Hardinsburg.

Neighboring Counties:

Northeast: Meade County
East: Hardin County
South: Grayson County
Southwest: Ohio County
Northwest: Hancock County; Perry County, Ind.

Cities and Towns:

- Cloverport	city	Incorporated Area
- Hardinsburg (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Irvington	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

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Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."