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

Hardin County, Kentucky

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

County Seat: Elizabethtown
Year Organized: 1793
Square Miles: 628

Court House:

100 Public Square, Suite 300
Courthouse
Elizabethtown, KY 42701-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Col. John Hardin (1753-1792), Revolutionary War veteran; surveyor, served with George Rogers Clark.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Hardin county was formed in 1793. It is located in the Pennyrile region of the state. The elevation in the county ranges from 383 to 1017 feet above sea level. In 2000 the county population was 94,174 in a land area of 627.98 square miles, an average of 150.0 people per square mile. The county seat is Elizabethtown.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Harrison County, Ind.
Northeast: Jefferson County; Bullitt County; Nelson County
Southeast: Larue County
South: Hart County
Southwest: Grayson County
West: Breckinridge County
Northwest: Meade County

Cities and Towns:

- Elizabethtown (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Radcliff	city	Incorporated Area
- Sonora	city	Incorporated Area
- Upton	city	Incorporated Area
- Vine Grove	city	Incorporated Area
- West Point	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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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!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

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."