Allensville, KY

Allensville is a census-designated place and former city in Todd County, Kentucky, in the United States. The 2020 census counted 175 residents. Settled in the 19th century and formally incorporated in 1867, the city was named for a pioneer family in the area. Allensville was settled in the early 1800s, and was originally a crossroads community concentrated around the intersection of two early stagecoach coach roads. That mix gives Allensville a clear local shape within Kentucky, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. This crossroads was about a mile northwest of the community's present location. Allensville is concentrated along Kentucky Route 102, just east of its intersection with U.S. Route 79. The community lies southeast of Elkton, southwest of Russellville, and a few miles north of the Kentucky- Tennessee state line.