Hodgenville is a home rule-class city[3] in LaRue County, Kentucky, United States.

Robert Hodgen, a Pennsylvania native who moved to Virginia, purchased 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of land in the vicinity.

In 1789, after the Revolutionary War, when settlers started moving west into Kentucky, he built a mill at the site.

[7] Abraham Lincoln was born in a small cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville on February 12, 1809.

The significance of the two Hodgenville sites (birthplace and boyhood home) are found in the setting.

Preservation of these two national sites allows visitors to see the landscape of the earliest period of Abraham Lincoln's life.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hodgenville has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.5 km2), of which 2.15 acres (8,687 m2), or 0.16%, are water.

[11] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.