Elizabethtown

Elizabethtown is a small town in the . Abraham Lincoln's parents Thomas and Nancy had their daughter Sarah here in 1807 and then Abraham nearby at Sinking Spring Farm in 1809.
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  • Type: City with 23,400 residents
  • Description: county seat of Hardin County, Kentucky, United States
  • Also known as: “Elizabethtown, Kentucky” and “Elizabethtown, KY”
  • Postal codes: 42701 and 42702

Places of Interest

Highlights include Elizabethtown High School and Benjamin Helm House.

School
is a four–year high school located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States. A part of Elizabethtown Independent Schools, it is commonly referred to as E-Town High School or EHS.

Building
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The is a two-story brick house in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, that was built in 1816 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Building
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is a building.

Elizabethtown

Latitude
37.694° or 37° 41′ 38″ north
Longitude
-85.8591° or 85° 51′ 33″ west
Population
23,400
Elevation
725 feet (221 metres)
IATA airport code
EKX
United Nations Location Code
US EKX
Open location code
869PM4VR+H8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153653955
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4290988
Wiki­data ID
Q946319
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Elizabethtown” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إليزابيثتاون”
  • Basque: “Elizabethtown”
  • Catalan: “Elizabethtown”
  • Cebuano: “Elizabethtown (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Kentucky)”
  • Cebuano: “Elizabethtown”
  • Chechen: “Элизабеттаун”
  • Chinese: “Elizabethtown”
  • Chinese: “伊丽莎白”
  • Chinese: “伊丽莎白敦”
  • Czech: “Elizabethtown”
  • Dagbani: “Elizabethtown”
  • Danish: “Elizabethtown”
  • Dutch: “Elizabethtown”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اليزابيثتاون”
  • French: “Elizabethtown”
  • German: “Elizabethtown”
  • Gilaki: “اليزابت‌تاؤن (کنتاکي)”
  • Gilaki: “اليزابت‌تاؤن”
  • Haitian: “Elizabethtown, Kentucky”
  • Haitian: “Elizabethtown”
  • Hebrew: “אליזבטאון”
  • Hungarian: “Elizabethtown”
  • Ido: “Elizabethtown, Kentucky”
  • Ido: “Elizabethtown”
  • Irish: “Elizabethtown”
  • Italian: “Elizabethtown”
  • Japanese: “エリザベスタウン”
  • Kazakh: “Элизабеттаун”
  • Kirghiz: “Элизабеттаун”
  • Korean: “엘리자베스타운”
  • Ladin: “Elizabethtown”
  • Mazanderani: “الیزابت‌تاون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Elizabethtown”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Elizabethtown”
  • Norwegian: “Elizabethtown”
  • Ossetian: “Элизабеттаун”
  • Persian: “الیزابتتاون، کنتاکی”
  • Persian: “الیزابت‌تاون، کنتاکی”
  • Persian: “الیزابت‌تاون”
  • Polish: “Elizabethtown”
  • Portuguese: “Elizabethtown”
  • Russian: “Элизабеттаун”
  • Serbian: “Елизабеттаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Elizabethtown, Kentucky”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Elizabethtown”
  • Slovak: “Elizabethtown”
  • Slovenian: “Elizabethtown”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الیزابت‌تاون، کنتاکی”
  • Spanish: “Elizabethtown (Kentucky)”
  • Spanish: “Elizabethtown”
  • Swedish: “Elizabethtown, Kentucky”
  • Swedish: “Elizabethtown”
  • Tatar: “Элизабеттаун”
  • Turkish: “Elizabethtown, Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “Elizabethtown”
  • Ukrainian: “Елізабеттаун”
  • Urdu: “الزبتھ ٹاؤن، کینٹکی”
  • Urdu: “الزبتھ ٹاؤن”
  • Uzbek: “Elizabethtown”
  • Volapük: “Elizabethtown”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Elizabethtown, Kentucky”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Elizabethtown”
  • “Elizabethtown”

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