Bengal is an unincorporated community in Taylor County, Kentucky, United States.

[2] It may have been named after an early street in Shippingport, Kentucky, now an area included within the city of Louisville.

Another possibility is that it was associated with a French settler from Calcutta via Bengal, who first settled in Paris, Kentucky.

About 1802 Elias Barbee and Revolutionary War veterans James and Jonathan Cowherd established a school in the Bengal area, as churches were also being founded.

He and numerous other migrants to what became Taylor County were from Pennsylvania; while others were from Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland.