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Ballard County

county in Kentucky, United States
Administrative Area County Of Kentucky Q491872

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Kentucky
Inception
February 15, 1842[12]
Official website
www.ballardcounty.ky.gov, ballardcounty.ky.gov[14][15]
Native label
Ballard County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.060°, -89.000°[13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kentucky[2]
Shares border with
Alexander County, Pulaski County, McCracken County, Carlisle County, Mississippi County[5][6][7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
+709
Population
7.7k (7.7k–8.3k, n=7)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
More facts +9
Capital
Wickliffe[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Wickliffe[11]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Kentucky/Ballard County
List of monuments
National Register of Historic Places listings in Ballard County, Kentucky[23]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108684
Named after
Bland Ballard[10]
Number of households
+3052
Per capita income
+26911
Water as percent of area
+9.9
🏷️ Also known as
en Ballard County en Ballard County, Kentucky en Ballard County, KY ar مقاطعة بالارد ar مقاطعه بالارد، كنتاكي el κομητεία Μπάλαρντ es Ballard County es condado de Ballard fa شهرستان بالارد fi Ballardin piirikunta fr Ballard County fr comté de Ballard hu Ballard megye it Ballard County it contea di Ballard ja バラード郡 ko 밸러드군 pl Hrabstwo Ballard pt Ballard County ro Comitatul Ballard
🔖 Identifiers · 30
ISNI
0000000406174917
VIAF cluster ID
126661518
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n79142809
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
CourthouseBallardCountyKY.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
19162
FIPS 6-4 ID
21007
Freebase ID
/m/0nnx5
GADM ID
USA.18.4_1
GNIS Feature ID
516850
GeoNames ID
4283067
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000767
HASC
US.KY.BA
Show all 30 identifiers +18
INaturalist place ID
61
J9U entity ID
987007557363405171
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.21007
MusicBrainz area ID
c31d28f8-b91b-4ef7-b97a-b345bf44f884
OBO Gazetteer ID
22224132
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2792204
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1846497
Our Campaigns container ID
3767
Ringgold ID
99580
Taxonomicon ID
1805853
Topic's main category
Category:Ballard County, Kentucky
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10039041
UMLS CUI
C3831420
Who's on First ID
102084567
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"BallardCounty", "Kentucky", "UnitedStates"}]
World Historical Gazetteer place ID
12655707
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJhXf7TrWcfwmkTp7Rptrq
Yale LUX ID
place/480ae92b-e137-4aae-886e-df3ee9e4cc7a
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
129 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Chicago 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 9
Wickliffe, Barlow, Kevil, La Center, Blandville, Bandana, Lovelaceville, New York +1 more
Shares border with 5
Alexander County, Carlisle County, Pulaski County, McCracken County, Mississippi County
← Shares border with 5
Alexander County, Carlisle County, Pulaski County, McCracken County, Mississippi County
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Populated places in Ballard County, Kentucky, Category:People from Ballard County, Kentucky
Capital 1
Wickliffe
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Ballard County, Kentucky
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Wickliffe
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Kentucky
Located in time zone 1
Central Time Zone
Topic's main category 1
Category:Ballard County, Kentucky
← Capital of 1
Wickliffe
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Ballard County, Kentucky
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Kentucky
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Summary

Ballard County is a county of Kentucky[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Ballard County covers an area of {'amount': '+709'}[24].

Related Entities

Kentucky United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 22224132
    UMLS CUI → C3831420
    Located in time zone → —
    Tabular data series → Data:US presidential elections by county/Ballard County, Ken
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Tabular data series: Data:US presidential elections by county/Ballard County, Kentucky.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States president"
  2. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → —
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Kentucky
    Named after → Bland Ballard
    Shares border with → Alexander County, Pulaski County, McCracken County +1
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: NCI Thesaurus ID: C108684, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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