Barbourville is a home rule-class city in Knox County, Kentucky, in the United States.

Barbourville is in the center of Knox County, in the valley of the Cumberland River where it is joined by Richland Creek.

U.S. Route 25E passes through the east side of the city, leading northwest 16 miles (26 km) to Corbin and southeast the same distance to Pineville.

Each year in early October, Barbourville hosts the Daniel Boone Festival, commemorating the pioneer who explored the area in 1775.

The festival features open-air concerts, carnival attractions, a beauty pageant, a parade, and other events.

[14] Starting in 2005, the Southern and Eastern Kentucky Tourism Development Association began sponsoring the Springtime Redbud Festival.

[15] Voters in Barbourville in 2015 approved alcohol sales in the city after 82 years of prohibition established by local law in 1933.

This approval came three and a half years after voters rejected alcohol sales in another special election.