LaCenter,[2][3] formerly and often informally written as La Center, is a home rule-class city[4] in Ballard County, Kentucky, in the United States.

The Kentucky Secretary of State is unclear upon the city's date of incorporation,[2] but the LaCenter Woman's Club states it was originally named Merriville after the daughter of Maggie Davis, the land owner who sold the property for the new city to its developer, the La Center Land Company, in 1902.

[6] After the Postal Service rejected this name for the new post office, the postmaster requested "LaCentre" for the city's central location within Ballard County, and later settled for "LaCenter.

"[7] One of the land developers, Stokely T. Payne, may have suggested the name, claiming the new city to be the "center of the universe,"[6] and possibly in the hopes that it would someday become the county seat.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.62 square miles (1.6 km2), all land.

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