HARDIN COUNTY, situated toward the northerly part of Kentucky. Area, 1,200 square miles. Face of the country hilly and broken. Seat of justice, Elizabethtown. Pop. in 1810, 7,581; in 1820, 10,498; in 1830, 13,148; in 1840, 16,357; in 1850, 14,525. (Fanning's, 1853)