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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.

Lincoln County, Kentucky

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

County Seat: Stanford
Year Organized: 1780
Square Miles: 337

Court House:

102 East Main Street
County Courthouse
Stanford, KY 40484-1279

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Gen. Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810), Revolutionary War officer; Secretary of War for the Continental Congress.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Lincoln county was formed in 1780. It is located in the Southern Knobs region of the state. The elevation in the county ranges from 760 to 1440 feet above sea level. In 2000 the county population was 23,361 in a land area of 336.26 square miles, an average of 69.5 people per square mile. The county seat is Stanford. Lincoln was one of the original counties in the Kentucky territory of Virginia.

Neighboring Counties:

Northeast: Garrard County
Southeast: Rockcastle County
South: Pulaski County
Southwest: Casey County
Northwest: Boyle County

Cities and Towns:

- Crab Orchard	city	Incorporated Area
- Hustonville	city	Incorporated Area
- Stanford (County Seat)	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!"

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."