Hardyville is a small

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

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) in Hart County,

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

, United States, located east of Munfordville on U.S. Route 31E. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 156. In the 2020 United States Census the population was 180. A post office was established in the community in 1868. It was named in honor of a series of popular stump speeches given at the crossroads during the 1850s by local politician

James Greene Hardy James Greene Hardy (May 3, 1795 – July 16, 1856) was a politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky who belonged to the American or Know-Nothing Party. Prior to being elected the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, he was a prominent surveyo ...

Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky The lieutenant governor of Kentucky was created under the state's second constitution, which was ratified in 1799. The inaugural officeholder was Alexander Scott Bullitt, who took office in 1800 following his election to serve under James Garra ...

from 1855 to 1856.

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Unincorporated communities in Kentucky Census-designated places in Hart County, Kentucky Census-designated places in Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Hart County, Kentucky {{HartCountyKY-geo-stub