Bagdad is an

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in northeastern Shelby County,

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. It was founded at what is currently the intersection of Kentucky Routes 12 and 395. The ZIP Code for Bagdad is 40003.

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The name of the community comes from the name of an old railroad station. According to one account, the station was named "Daddy's Bag", after a colorful railroad worker who lived there, which was eventually shortened to "Bagdad". Another account suggests that a person with a speech impediment named it "Granddad". Yet another story has it that the young speech-impaired son of a local feed merchant, whenever a customer walked in the door, would holler to his father, "Bag, dad!".John E. Kleber, The New History of Shelby County, Kentucky (Prospect, KY: Harmony House Publishing, 2003), p.52-55. Bagdad is the hometown of former governor of Kentucky

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, Kentucky's first and so far only female governor.

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Unincorporated communities in Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Shelby County, Kentucky Louisville metropolitan area {{ShelbyCountyKY-geo-stub

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