Anderson County
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- Named after
- Richard Clough Anderson Jr.
- Seat
- Lawrenceburg
- Largest city
- Lawrenceburg
- Judge executive
- Orbrey Gritton (R)
- Total
- 204 sq mi (530 km )
- Land
- 202 sq mi (520 km )
- Water
- 2.4 sq mi (6.2 km ) 1.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 25,225
- Density
- 118/sq mi (45.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional districts
- 1st , 6th
- Website
- andersoncounty .ky .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Anderson County, located in the Outer Bluegrass physiographic region, is Kentucky's 48th most populated and ninth fastest-growing county.
On January 16, 1827, the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky approved "an ACT to erect and establish the county of Anderson out of parts of the county of Franklin, Washington, and Mercer," which went into effect on February 1, 1827, and established Anderson County as the 82nd county. Additional information in this act regards Anderson County's namesake, Richard Clough Anderson Jr., legislator and U.S. minister plenipotentiary to Colombia, and its county seat, the City of Lawrenceburg. Anderson County's borders were later modified by the General Assembly's January 28, 1854, approval of "an ACT to change the line between the counties of Franklin and Anderson."