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Owenton is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Owen County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,327 at the 2000 census. It is located at the junction of U.S. Route 127 and Kentucky Route 22, about halfway between Louisville and Cincinnati. 1 History.
In 1819, four years after the close of the War of 1812, Owen County was formed from parts of Franklin, Pendleton, Gallatin and Scott counties. The new county was named for Col. Abraham Owen, a Kentucky patriot who sacrificed his life at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.