Cecilia, KY

Cecilia is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States. The 2020 census counted 575, residents. Cecilia is located 6 miles west of Elizabethtown, the county seat. The town was formerly called "Cecilian Junction" because of its location at the junction of the Illinois Central Railroad's Louisville-Paducah main line and its branch to Hodgenville. The through line in Cecilia is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Cecilia makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. ) The community is part of the Elizabethtown–Fort Knox Metropolitan Statistical Area, and a significant part of the area served by the Cecilia post office is now within the Elizabethtown city limits.