Cecilia is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) and

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in Hardin County,

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, United States. It is located west of Elizabethtown, the

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. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 575, stagnant from the 2010 census population of 572. 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 line now belongs to the Paducah and Louisville Railway, and the branch is now truncated to Elizabethtown.) The community is part of the Elizabethtown–Fort Knox Metropolitan Statistical Area, and a significant part of the area served by the Cecilia

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is now within the Elizabethtown city limits. Kentucky Route 86 runs through the town, ending just south of the town at an intersection with U.S. Route 62.

Demographics

Notable person

Cecilia is the home of Ron Lewis, who represented Kentucky's 2nd congressional district in the

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between 1994 and 2009.The Almanac of American Politics, 2000 pg. 678
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References

Census-designated places in Hardin County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky Elizabethtown metropolitan area Census-designated places in Kentucky {{HardinCountyKY-geo-stub