Sacramento, KY

Sacramento is a home rule-class city in McLean County, Kentucky, in the United States. The 2020 census counted 429 residents. Sacramento is included in the Owensboro metropolitan area. The first community at the site was known as "Crossroads", but the post office established in 1852 was named "Social Hill". The short version is that Sacramento carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Sacramento: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Helm platted the town and renamed it Sacramento. The city is concentrated around the intersection of Kentucky Route 81 / Kentucky Route 85 and Kentucky Route 254, northeast of Madisonville. KY 81 and KY 85 converge in the northeastern part of town, and diverge just south of the city.