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Breckinridge County

Breckinridge County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,432. Its county seat is Hardinsburg, Kentucky. The county was named for John Breckinridge (1760–1806), a Kentucky Attorney General, state legislator, United States Senator, and United States Attorney General. It was the 38th Kentucky county in order of formation. Breckinridge County is now a wet county, following a local-option election on January 29, 2013, but it had been a dry county for the previous 105 years.

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Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)

Census ID (PID6): 105319
FIPS state: 21
FIPS county: 027
FIPS place: 99027
Census record name: COUNTY OF BRECKINRIDGE
Mailing address: 208 S MAIN ST, HARDINSBURG 40143