Owingsville is a home rule-class city[6] in Bath County, Kentucky, in the United States.

In 1795, Colonel Thomas Dye Owings was sent from Maryland to Kentucky by his father to operate some of the first iron furnaces in the region.

Within 15 years, Owings had amassed a good deal of wealth and land.

Along with Colonel Richard H. Menefee, Owings founded the community that took his name, Owingsville.

[citation needed] Owings and Menefee each owned significant parcels of land in what would become Owingsville.

To select whose name the community would take, the two men wagered that the man who built the finer home the quickest would be the namesake of the town.