Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- Named after
- John Breckinridge
- Seat
- Hardinsburg
- Largest city
- Hardinsburg
- Judge executive
- Maurice Lucas (R)
- Total
- 586 sq mi (1,520 km )
- Land
- 567 sq mi (1,470 km )
- Water
- 18 sq mi (47 km ) 3.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 21,503
- Density
- 37.4/sq mi (14.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
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Breckinridge County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,432. Its county seat is Hardinsburg, Kentucky. The county was named for John Breckinridge (1760–1806), a Kentucky Attorney General, state legislator, United States Senator, and United States Attorney General. It was the 38th Kentucky county in order of formation. Breckinridge County is now a wet county, following a local-option election on January 29, 2013, but it had been a dry county for the previous 105 years.
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