Hardin County, Kentucky

Founding: 1793
Parent county: Nelson

Namesake: John Hardin, Continental Army officer
Seat: Elizabethtown (1795–)

Land area: 623 square miles

Population (2020): 110,702

Population (historic): 3,653 (1800); 12,849 (1830); 15,189 (1860); 21,304 (1890); 20,913 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1800–1840; 1850–1880; 1890s; 1910s; 1930–2020

Subdivisions: Six cities; three CDPs

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 2,324 (5%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 38.1%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 15.3%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 14.5%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 7.5%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $735
Average outbuilding value (1930): $447
Average farmhouse size (1940): 4.5 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 3,302
Average farm size (1920): 72.9 acres
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Elizabethtown

Namesake: Elizabeth Hynes, wife of the city's founder

Founding: 1795 (platting); 1804 (post office); 1847 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 31,394

Population (historic): 181 (1810); 979 (1840); 1,743 (1870); 1,861 (1900); 2,590 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1830–1880; 1900–2020
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 648 (4.8%)
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