Sanders, KY

Sanders is a home rule-class city in Carroll County, Kentucky, in the United States. The 2020 census counted 197 residents. The community was founded at a salt lick on the Buffalo Trace stretching from the Licking River to Drennon Springs. The community was first known as Rislerville for a local shopkeeper, but was known as Sanders' Mill after the local miller Nathaniel Sanders opened a post office in 1816. Sanders's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Kentucky setting. The local scoop is how Sanders's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Sanders is located in the southeast corner of Carroll County along Eagle Creek, a tributary of the Kentucky River. Sanders includes the community was founded at a salt lick on the Buffalo Trace stretching from the Licking River.