Georgetown is a home rule-class city[7] in Scott County, Kentucky, United States.

At one time the city served as the training camp home for the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals.

[10][11] Native peoples have lived along the banks of Elkhorn Creek in what is now Scott County for at least 15,000 years.

[citation needed] Anglo-American exploration can be dated to the late colonial period and a June 1774 surveying expedition from Fincastle County, Virginia, led by Colonel John Floyd.

[13] In 1782, the Baptist preacher Elijah Craig led his congregation to the site from Orange County, Virginia, and established a new settlement which he called Lebanon.

[12] Craig established some of the first mills west of the Appalachian Mountains along the Royal Spring Branch, where he also manufactured cloth and paper.

Planters cultivated tobacco and hemp, and raised blooded livestock, including Thoroughbred racehorses, and cattle and sheep.

The last was considered the "whiskey route" and carried much of the region's bourbon to markets along the Ohio River.

It previously served as a community center for the city of Georgetown, but was purchased by the Catholic Diocese of Lexington in 2019.

[15][16] Throughout the 20th century, Georgetown has been in transition from an economy based primarily on agriculture, to one mixing manufacturing, small business, and the family farm.

The selection of Georgetown as the site of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky in 1985 has resulted in the greatest period of growth in the city's history.

[18] The home represents the height of the Greek Revival period of architecture in Kentucky and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

US 25 runs through the center of town, leading south to Lexington and north 22 mi (35 km) to Corinth.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.85 square miles (41 km2), all land.

Georgetown has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with warm summers and moderately cold winters.

Precipitation is relatively well spread (although the late spring and summer months are typically wetter), with an average of 45.28 in (1,150 mm).

Toyota Stadium hosts Georgetown College's Football Team and Lexington SC.