Lincoln County, Kentucky

Founding: 1780
Parent county: Kentucky County, Virginia

Namesake: Benjamin Lincoln, Continental Army general
Seat: Harrodsburg (1780–1785); Stanford (1785–)

Land area: 334 square miles

Population (2020): 24,275

Population (historic): 6,548 (1790); 11,002 (1830); 10,947 (1870); 17,059 (1900); 17,687 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1790–1830; 1850–1910; 1920–1940; 1960–2010

Subdivisions: Three cities

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 1,043 (9.5%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 26.6%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 13.5%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 29.6%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 27%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $798
Average outbuilding value (1930): $446
Average farmhouse size (1940): 4.7 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 2,323
Average farm size (1920): 54.1 acres
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Stanford

Namesake: Unknown

Founding: circa 1781 (founding); 1786 (incorporation); 1798 (post office)

Population (2020): 3,640

Population (historic): 66 (1800); 263 (1840); 752 (1870); 1,651 (1900); 1,544 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1830; 1860–1900; 1920–1940; 1960s; 1990s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 292 (17.4%)
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