{"id":3887,"date":"2023-06-09T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T08:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:24:32","slug":"bath-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/bath-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Bath County, Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bath County is a county in Kentucky, United States, in the eastern Bluegrass region along US 60. It had a population of 12,750 at the 2020 census and covers 284 square miles (740 km2) of mostly rolling farmland and hill country, centred near 38°08′N 83°44′W.<\/p>\n

Owingsville is the county seat, and its postal code is 40360. The county has three incorporated cities and about ten unincorporated communities, spread across roughly 279 square miles of land and 5.2 square miles of water. Bath County sits in the Eastern time zone and is part of both the Lexington-Fayette-Richmond-Frankfort combined statistical area and the Mount Sterling micropolitan area.<\/p>\n

Towns & Villages in Bath County<\/h2>\n

Bath County has three incorporated cities — Owingsville, Salt Lick, and Sharpsburg — plus a scatter of unincorporated communities and rural place names, several dating to the county’s 19th-century iron-furnace and mineral-spring era. CDP = Census Designated Place; Unincorp. = unincorporated community with no municipal government.<\/p>\n

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Place<\/th>\nType<\/th>\nPop.<\/th>\nZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Owingsville<\/td>\nCity · seat<\/td>\n1,593<\/td>\n40360<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Salt Lick<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n40371<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sharpsburg<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n40374<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Olympia<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n40358<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bald Eagle<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ore Mines<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peasticks<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Polksville<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Preston<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Red Bush<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shrout<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stepstone<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Upper Prickly Ash<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Several older place names still turn up on local maps and in the county’s history books without a confirmed modern population figure, including Bethel, Clear Creek Furnace, Kendall Springs, Midland, Oakla, Olympia Springs, Pebble, Reynoldsville, Slate Valley, White Oak, and Wyoming — most were 19th-century iron-furnace landings, mill sites, or rail flag stops rather than towns with their own government. Zilpo Recreation Area, on the shore of Cave Run Lake, is a U.S. Forest Service campground rather than a settlement.<\/p>\n

ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n