Hart County, Kentucky

Founding: 1819
Parent counties: Barren and Hardin

Namesake: Nathaniel Hart (c. 1784–1813), Kentucky businessman and soldier
Seat: Munfordville (1819–)

Land area: 412 square miles

Population (2010): 18,199

Population (historic): 4,184 (1820); 9,093 (1850); 17,133 (1880); 18,390 (1900); 16,169 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1820–1880; 1890s; 1970s; 1990s

Subdivisions: Three cities; one CDP

National Register listings: 18

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 619 (7%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 26.3%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 8.2%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $424
Average outbuilding value (1930): $313
Average farmhouse size (1940): 4.2 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 3,526
Average farm size (1920): 49.1 acres
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Munfordville

Namesake: Richard Munford, owner of the city site

Founding: 1816 (platting); 1820 (post office); 1858 (incorporation)

Population (2010): 1,615

Population (historic): 194 (1830); 265 (1860); 274 (1880); 440 (1900); 549 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1830–1840; 1880s; 1910s; 1930s; 1950s; 1970s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 57 (6.6%)
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Outstanding Buildings

1. Farm (c. 1880). Jackson Highway, south of C.T. Hogan Lane. Italianate.
2. Farm (c. 1880). 6015 Lonoke Road. Gothic Revival.
3. Farm (c. 1900). 2060 Round Bottom Road.
4. *Edmund Pearce Farm (c. 1847). 640 Sims Cemetery Road.
5. *Gardner House (c. 1815). 300 W. Walters Road.

1. *Munfordville Presbyterian Church (c. 1835). 3rd Street. Munfordville. Gothic Revival.
2. *Munfordville Baptist Church (1914). 313 South 5th Street. Munfordville. Gothic Revival.
3. *Hart County Courthouse (1928). 200 Main Street. Munfordville. Georgian Revival.
4. *Chapline Building (1892). Main Street. Munfordville. Italianate.
5. *Munford Inn (c. 1810). 109 Washington Street. Munfordville.
6. *Smith House (c. 1835). 204 Washington Street. Munfordville. Federal.