Blandville, KY

Blandville is an inactive home rule-class city in Ballard County, Kentucky, in the United States. The 2020 census counted 73 residents. Blandville was founded in 1842 and named for Captain Bland Ballard, a hero of the War of 1812. Blandville was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1845. The short version is that Blandville carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Blandville: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Blandville was the seat of Ballard County from 1842 to 1881, when the seat was moved to Wickliffe. Blandville is located near the southern border of Ballard County in western Kentucky. Blandville is 8 miles east of Wickliffe, the county seat, and 13 miles east of the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers at Cairo, Illinois.