Editing Hardinsburg, Kentucky

{{hatnote|Not to be confused with the similarly-named [[Hardin, Kentucky|city]] or [[Hardin County, Kentucky|county of Hardin]], both also located in Kentucky.}}
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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name      = Hardinsburg, Kentucky
| named_for          = William Hardin
| settlement_type    = [[list of cities in Kentucky|City]]
| image_skyline      = Breckinridge County, Kentucky courthouse.jpg
| imagesize          = 250px
| image_caption      = Breckinridge County courthouse in Hardinsburg
| image_map          = File:Breckinridge County Kentucky Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Hardinsburg Highlighted 2134552.svg
| mapsize            = 260px
| map_caption        = Location of Hardinsburg in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
| subdivision_type   = Country
| subdivision_type1  = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[List of counties in Kentucky|County]]
| subdivision_name   = United States
| subdivision_name1  = [[Kentucky]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Breckinridge County, Kentucky|Breckinridge]]
| government_type    = 
| leader_title       = Mayor
| leader_name        = Wayne Macy
| established_title  = Founded
| established_date   = 1780<ref>''Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer'', "[http://www.uky.edu/KentuckyAtlas/ky-hardinsburg.html Hardinsburg]".</ref>
| established_title2 = Incorporated
| established_date2  = 1890
| area_magnitude     = 
| area_total_km2     = 9.17
| area_land_km2      = 8.96
| area_water_km2     = 0.21
| area_total_sq_mi   = 3.54
| area_land_sq_mi    = 3.46
| area_water_sq_mi   = 0.08
| elevation_m        = 216
| elevation_ft       = 709
| coordinates        = {{coord|37|46|35|N|86|27|18|W|region:US_type:city|display=inline,title}}
| population_as_of   = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_total   = 2385
| population_density_km2 = 266.29
| timezone           = [[Central Time Zone|CST]]
| utc_offset         = -6
| timezone_DST       = [[Central Time Zone|CDT]]
| utc_offset_DST     = -5
| postal_code_type   = ZIP Code
| postal_code        = 40143
| area_code          = [[Area codes 270 and 364|270 & 364]]
| blank_name         = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info         = 21-34552
| blank1_name        = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info        = 0493730
| footnotes          = 
| website            = {{URL|hardinsburg.ky.gov}}
| pop_est_as_of      = 2022
| pop_est_footnotes  = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-2022/cities/totals/SUB-IP-EST2022-POP-21.xlsx|title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places in Kentucky: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2022|publisher= United States Census Bureau|access-date= May 26, 2023}}</ref>
| population_est     = 2433
| unit_pref          = Imperial
| area_footnotes     = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020">{{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_21.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=March 18, 2022}}</ref>
| population_density_sq_mi = 689.71
| population_footnotes = 
}}

'''Hardinsburg''' is a [[list of Kentucky cities|home rule-class city]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.klc.org/UserFiles/files/ClassificationReformFACT(3).pdf |title=Summary and Reference Guide to House Bill 331 City Classification Reform |publisher=Kentucky League of Cities |access-date=December 30, 2014}}</ref> in [[Breckinridge County, Kentucky|Breckinridge County]], [[Kentucky]], in the United States. It is the [[county seat|seat]] of its county.<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx|access-date=June 7, 2011|title=Find a County|publisher=National Association of Counties}}</ref> The population was 2,343 at the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]].<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US2134552| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212175817/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US2134552| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Hardinsburg city, Kentucky| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=November 25, 2013}}</ref> Hardinsburg was named after Captain [[William Hardin]].

==History==

In August 1779, Sinclair Hardin, William's cousin, was the first man killed (by the Shawnee) west of the Alleghenies Mountains at [[Big Springs, Kentucky|Big Springs]] during an early excursion into the Kentucky wilderness.

[[Captain (Continental Army)|Capt.]] [[William Hardin]], brother of the [[Colonel (United States)#Origins|Col.]] [[John Hardin]] for whom [[Hardin County, Kentucky|Hardin County]] was named, established a frontier fort at the site in 1780. The settlement was known variously as '''Hardin's Fort''' and '''Hardin's Station''' in the 18th century.<ref>{{cite book |title=''Encyclopedia of Kentucky'' |chapter=Dictionary of Places: Hardinsburg |publisher=Somerset Publishers |location=New York, New York |year=1987 |isbn=0-403-09981-1}}</ref>

William Hardin received 400 acres as assignee of Benjamin Hardin, Warrant# 2586, dated February 14, 1780, and the tract was surveyed June 8, 1784. According to the description, the land was on Hardin's Creek, a branch of the Ohio River, and it was formally granted on June 21, 1786. This area would become Hardinsburg.

Hardinsburg was laid out in 1782 by William Hardin. It is small and its growth has been slow, having failed to number a thousand inhabitants in its first hundred years. Among its early and prominent citizens were Joseph Allen, Captain Thomas Kincheloe, Reverend James Taylor, Philip Lightfoot, Morris Hensly, Charles Hambleton, William Feaman, B and RM Wathen, John McClarty, William Morton, Stanley Singleton, James and Williamson Cox, William Seaton, Francis Peyton, Joseph Thomas, Thornton Smith, Jefferson Jennings and Dr. S.B. Abel. When Judge Kincheloe, Colonel Alf. Allen, Mr. Vivian Daniel, Rev. RG Gardner and Squire Eskridge die, the "old guard" will have become extinct.<ref>http://genealogytrails.com/ken/breckinridge/history.html http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.hardin/1229.1/mb.ashx</ref>

William Hardin received grants from the state of Virginia in 1785 for 3800 acres of land, all near the present site of Hardinsburg, Kentucky.<ref>Nassau-Siegen Immigrants; Daisy Decker George; Oran Hardin; Kentucky Records; Entered October 6, 1995.</ref>

The murder and scalping of young James Jolly was the second colonizer to be murdered by native Kentuckians at Hardin's Fort. James was the son of Nelson Jolly Jr., the progenitor of the Jolly family of present-day Breckinridge County. At seventeen years of age, and newly arrived at the fort, James went alone to bring in the horses which were grazing along Clover Creek, a few hundred yards from its palisaded walls. When he did not return, a scouting party eventually found his mutilated body. James Jolly was the first person to die at Hardin's Station and the first to be buried under a hickory tree near the banks of Clover Creek, where, both his father and William Hardin were buried when they died.<ref name=Powell>Powell, Burnett. 1976, July 4. Brave Beginnings. Breckinridge County Herald-News</ref>

Hardinsburg was established in 1800 as the seat of government for the newly established [[Breckinridge County, Kentucky|Breckinridge County]]. The first courthouse was a log house built in 1801. Jack Hardin's family book states family members laid out the town without compass or chain in the Fall of 1781; their only instruments were a vine and ax. Its post office was established on January 1, 1803, as '''Breckinridge Court House''' or '''Hardinburg'''<!--sic-->.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA130 | title=Kentucky Place Names | publisher=University Press of Kentucky | year=1987 | access-date= April 28, 2013 | author=Rennick, Robert M. | pages=130| isbn=0813126312 }}</ref>

In 1810, a [[Roman Catholic]] church was founded.  Originally named St. Rumoldus ([[Rumbold of Mechelen|St. Rumbold]]) after the [[St. Rumbold's Cathedral|Cathedral]] in [[Mechelen, Belgium]], the name was later changed to [[St. Romuald]].<ref name = diocese>{{cite book | title=The Roman Catholic Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky | publisher=[[Turner Publishing Company]] | issue=v. 1 | location=Paducah, Kentucky | year=1994 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OqdNN9R9OHcC&pg=PA169 | access-date=May 16, 2023 | page=169| isbn=978-1-56311-129-7 }}</ref>  From 1924 to 1982 the church was served by priests from the [[Missionaries of the Precious Blood]].<ref name="Patterson 2012 141">{{cite book | last=Patterson | first=Sarah L. | title=75 Years of the Diocese of Owensboro Kentucky | publisher=Éditions du Signe | issue=v. 1 | location=Strasbourg, France | year=2012 | isbn=978-2-7468-2874-2 | page=141}}</ref>

A [[Methodist]] congregation was formed in 1828.<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|url=https://www.hardinsburgumc.org/history|title=The History of the Hardinsburg United Methodist Church|publisher=Hardinsburg United Methodist Church|access-date=May 16, 2023}}</ref>

In 1887, a group met at the courthouse and started the [[Baptist]] church for the town.<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|url=http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/breckinridge/towns/hardinsburgbapt.html|title=Hardinsburg Baptist Church|publisher=USGenwWeb Archives|access-date=May 16, 2023}}</ref>

The city was formally incorporated by the [[Kentucky Assembly|state assembly]] on May 3, 1890.<ref>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Hardinsburg, Kentucky". Accessed July 29, 2013.</ref>

==Geography==
Hardinsburg is located at {{coord|37|46|35|N|86|27|18|W|type:city}} (37.776336, −86.455010).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|9.2|km2|disp=flip}}, of which {{convert|8.9|km2|disp=flip}} is land and {{convert|0.1|km2|disp=flip|2}}, or 2.34%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010"/>

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
| 1830 = 316
| 1840 = 634
| 1860 = 380
| 1870 = 455
| 1880 = 585
| 1890 = 681
| 1900 = 689
| 1910 = 737
| 1920 = 810
| 1930 = 805
| 1940 = 930
| 1950 = 902
| 1960 = 1377
| 1970 = 1547
| 1980 = 2211
| 1990 = 1906
| 2000 = 2345
| 2010 = 2343
| 2020 = 2385
| estyear = 2022
| estimate = 2433
| estref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-2022/cities/totals/SUB-IP-EST2022-POP-21.xlsx|title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places in Kentucky: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2022|publisher= United States Census Bureau|access-date= May 26, 2023}}</ref>
| footnote = U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}
As of the census<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> of 2010, there were 2,343 people, 964 households, and 583 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|651.4|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 1,078 housing units at an average density of {{convert|302.5|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was 90.06% [[White American|White]], 8.61% [[African American]], 0.17% [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]], 0.09% [[Asian American|Asian]], 0.13% from [[Race and ethnicity in the United States Census#Race|other races]], and 0.94% from [[Multiracial American|two or more races]]. [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanics or Latinos]] of any race were 1.41% of the population.

There were 964 households, out of which 25.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.8% were married couples living together, 13.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.5% were non-families. 36.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.83.

The age distribution was 20.3% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 23.6% from 45 to 64, and 20.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.0 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $26,447, and the median income for a family was $36,214. Males had a median income of $29,375 versus $20,331 for females. The per capita income for the city was $18,307. About 14.6% of families and 19.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.5% of those under age 18 and 18.9% of those age 65 or over.

==Education==
Hardinsburg has a [[public library]], a branch of the Breckinridge County Public Library.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/pages/librarydirectory.aspx | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111202017/https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/pages/librarydirectory.aspx | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 11, 2019 | title=Kentucky Public Library Directory | publisher=Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives | access-date=June 5, 2019}}</ref>

Hardinsburg public school students are served by the [[Breckinridge County School District]].

In 1871 and 1872 there was a school in town for black students supported by the [[Freedmen's Aid Society]].<ref>{{cite book | first=Marion B. | last=Lucas | title=A History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891 | publisher=Kentucky Historical Society | issue=v. 1 | year=1992 | url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/232565461.pdf | accessdate=July 5, 2023 | isbn=0-916968-32-4 | page=250}}</ref>

A Catholic school has been located in Hardinsburg since 1876.  The school was originally staffed by the [[Sisters of Charity of Nazareth]], the [[Sisters of Loretto]], then by the [[Ursulines]] after 1887.  Members of the [[Benedictine Sisters of St. Walburg Monastery|Benedictine Sisters]] served the school beginning in 1990.  In 1991, St. Romuald High School was closed.<ref name = diocese/><ref name="Patterson 2012 141"/>

==Notable people==
* [[Butch Beard]], former [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] All-Star
* [[Percy Beard]], silver medalist hurdler in [[National Track and Field Hall of Fame]]
* [[Ralph Beard]], member of "Fabulous Five" [[University of Kentucky]] men's basketball team
* [[Jenks "Tex" Carman]], guitarist
* [[Donnie Gedling]], former member of the [[Kentucky House of Representatives]]
* [[Bobbi Jordan]], actress raised in Hardinsburg<ref name=thr>{{cite news|first=Mike|last=Barnes|title=Actress Bobbi Jordan Dies at 75, She had a stint on "General Hospital" in the 1970s and appeared in the Lucille Ball musical "Mame." |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bobbi-jordan-general-hospital-dies-393923 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=November 26, 2012 |access-date=December 8, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Lisa Thornhill]], actress born and raised in Hardinsburg.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/person/lisa-thornhill |title= Lisa Thornhill |publisher=metacritic.com |access-date=February 19, 2019}}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==
* [https://archive.today/20131125134844/http://hardinsburg.ky.gov/ City of Hardinsburg official website]

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