Elizabethtown, Kentucky Elizabethtown, Kentucky Hardin County Courthouse in downtown Elizabethtown Hardin County Courthouse in downtown Elizabethtown Location of Elizabethtown, Kentucky Location of Elizabethtown, Kentucky Elizabethtown is a home rule-class town/city and the governmental center of county of Hardin County, Kentucky, in the United States.
The populace was estimated at 29,335 by the United States Enumeration in 2012, making it the 10th-largest town/city in the state. It is encompassed in (and the principal town/city of) the Elizabethtown Fort Knox, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is encompassed in the Louisville/Jefferson County Elizabethtown Madison, Kentucky-Indiana Combined Statistical Area.
7.1 Elizabethtown Independent Schools According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 25.8 square miles (67 km2), of which 25.4 square miles (66 km2) is territory and 0.5 square miles (1 km2) (1.77%) is water.
On the list (by population) of all urbane statistical areas as defined by the United States Enumeration Bureau, Elizabethtown has a populace of 28,531.
The Elizabethtown urbane region includes Radcliff, a town/city about three-fourths the size of Elizabethtown; the housing areas of the Fort Knox Military Installation; the unincorporated town of Rineyville, where Abraham Lincoln's school teacher, Zachariah Riney lived; and other communities such as Vine Grove, Glendale, Sonora, West Point, and Upton.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Elizabethtown has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Established in 1793, the Hardin County was titled for Colonel John Hardin, an Indian fighter who worked with tribes in the small-town area.
In 1793, Colonel Andrew Hynes had 30 acres (120,000 m2) (until then known as the Severn's Valley Settlement) surveyed and laid off into lots and streets to establish Elizabethtown.
Named with respect to his wife, Elizabethtown was legally established in 1797. After Lincoln married Nancy Hanks in 1806, they lived in a log cabin assembled in Elizabethtown.
After his wife died in 1818, he returned to Elizabethtown and married Sarah Bush Johnston, widowed since 1816.
Thomas Helm, became the president of the barns in October 1854; he directed assembly of the chief stem of the rail line through Elizabethtown.
The rail line was instead of to Elizabethtown in 1858, with the first train arriving on June 15, 1858.
The opening of the barns brought economic expansion to Elizabethtown, which became an meaningful trade center along the barns and a strategic point amid the Civil War.
On December 27, 1862, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his 3,000-man cavalry attacked Elizabethtown.
Although he successfully captured Elizabethtown, Morgan's chief goal was to disrupt the barns and northern transportation.
From 1871 to 1873 amid the Reconstruction era, the Seventh Cavalry and a battalion of the Fourth Infantry, led by General George Armstrong Custer, were stationed in Elizabethtown.
The movie Elizabethtown (2005) was titled after the town; most of the footage was filmed in Versailles and Louisville because Elizabethtown has lost much of its historic architecture in recent years due to commercial development.
Elizabethtown is officially classified by the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) as being in a "moist county".
In 2011, the inhabitants of Elizabethtown, Radcliff, and Vine Grove voted to allow properly licensed businesses to sell package liquor, wine, and beer. The town/city is served by the Elizabethtown Regional Airport (EKX) and the Elizabethtown Airport Board is presently seeking options to bring commercial services to the city. In 2000, Hardin County, Kentucky and La - Rue County, Kentucky were defined as the Elizabethtown, KY Metropolitan Travel Destination by the Bureau of the Census; the name of the region was changed in 2013 to Elizabethtown Fort Knox, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Water fortress near Panther Baseball Park in Elizabethtown, Kentucky Elizabethtown Independent Schools Elizabethtown High School The Hardin County Schools are another precinct that encompasses some of the town/city limits.
Although New Highland Elementary, Bluegrass Middle School, and John Hardin High School have an Elizabethtown mailing address, and some Elizabethtown inhabitants are zoned into those schools, they are actually inside the town/city limits of neighboring Radcliff. Conversely, Central Hardin High is inside the town/city limits of Elizabethtown but has a mailing address of Cecilia.
Elizabethtown Christian Academy Elizabethtown is home to Elizabethtown Community and Technical College, a member of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, as well as Empire Beauty School formerly the Hair Design School on Westport Road.
Also, Western Kentucky University has a county-wide ground located on post at Fort Knox and in a building that is shared with ECTC in Elizabethtown.
The Elizabethtown Japanese School ( Erizabesutaun Nihonjin Hoshuko), a weekend Japanese program, holds its classes at the Elizabethtown Community and Technical College. Elizabethtown has one sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International: The first Baptist settlement west of the Alleghany Mountains was in Elizabethtown at Severns Valley Baptist Church, titled after the first name of Elizabethtown.
James Parish in Elizabethtown.
Lucinda Helm helped bring United Methodists into Elizabethtown and they immortalized her in naming the Helm Memorial United Methodist Church, today simply called MUMC.
More than 12 denominations are represented by over 100 churches in Elizabethtown.
Bogard, clergyman, founder of the American Baptist Association, born in Elizabethtown in 1868 Brown, 31st Governor of Kentucky and former Representative of Kentucky's 2nd precinct (1873 1877) & 5th precinct (1859 1861) Sarah Lincoln Grigsby, sister of Abraham Lincoln, was born in Elizabethtown Andrew Hynes, founder of Elizabethtown, which he titled after his wife Daniel Martin Moore, the singer-songwriter and musician was born in Elizabethtown.
Elizabethtown is the eponym of the film Elizabethtown starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.
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On this map, Elizabethtown is displayed with a pink background and Radcliff in green.
62 west of downtown Elizabethtown.
" (Elizabethtown Japanese School) c/o Elizabethtown Community and Technical College 600 College Street Road, Elizabethtown , KY 42701" Elizabethtown Japanese School.
" c/o ECTC 600 College Street Road Elizabethtown, Kentucky, U.S.A." Sister City University of Kentucky.
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City of Elizabethtown official site "Elizabethtown's new $29 million, 150-acre youth sports complex" The New York Times, September 6, 2011 Municipalities and communities of Hardin County, Kentucky, United States 50 most crowded cities of Kentucky
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