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Breckinridge County
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county in Kentucky, United States
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
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- breckinridgeky .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- John Breckinridge
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kentucky
- Capital
- Hardinsburg
- Population
- 20432
- Area
- 1517
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Perry County
- Official website
- www.breckinridgecounty.net
- Image
- Breckinridge County, Kentucky courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 7731
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- native label
- Breckinridge County
- Commons category
- Breckinridge County, Kentucky
- topic's main category
- Category:Breckinridge County, Kentucky
- inception
- 1799-12-09
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Breckinridge County, Kentucky
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Breckinridge County, Kentucky
- water as percent of area
- 3.2
- per capita income
- 24458
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Breckinridge County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.