Harrodsburg
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city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- County
- Mercer
- Founded
- June 16, 1774
- Incorporated
- March 1, 1836
- Named after
- James Harrod
- Mayor
- Bob Williams
- Total
- 6.94 sq mi (17.98 km )
- Land
- 6.92 sq mi (17.93 km )
- Water
- 0.019 sq mi (0.05 km )
- Elevation
- 837 ft (255 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 9,491
- Density
- 1,309.6/sq mi (505.63/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 21-34966
- Website
- https://www.harrodsburgky.gov/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Harrodsburg
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Mercer County
- Population
- 9064
- Area
- 17.948465
- Elevation
- 260
- Time zone
- Q5390
- Capital of
- Mercer County
- Official website
- www.harrodsburgcity.org
- Image
- Downtown Harrodsburg Kentucky 2.jpg
- Households
- 3911
- Dialing code
- 859
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- postal code
- 40330
- P8168
- Li Na
- Commons category
- Harrodsburg, Kentucky
- Commons gallery
- Harrodsburg, Kentucky
- inception
- 1774-06-16
- water as percent of area
- 0.2757
- per capita income
- 23537
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Harrodsburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Mercer County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 9,064 at the 2020 census.
Although Harrodsburg was formally established by the Virginia House of Burgesses after Boonesborough and was not incorporated by the Kentucky legislature until 1836, President Franklin D. Roosevelt honored it as the oldest permanent American settlement west of the Appalachians.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harrodsburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.