Pleasureville is a home rule-class city in Henry and Shelby Counties, Kentucky, United States.

[4] In 1784, 30-odd Dutch Huguenot families colonizing present-day Mercer County purchased 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) from Squire Boone.

[6][1] Rennick relates the local story that it derived from a visitor expressing what a pleasure it was to stay among such pleasant people.

[5] This story was also detailed in an autobiography of Isaac Newton LeCompte in 1919, where he noted, "My Great Uncle, Major Joe LeCompte, who was a politician as well as a soldier, upon his rounds as a candidate for Congress (he was elected four terms) frequently passed through this village and upon one occasion he remarked that every time he passed through he heard the men whistling and the woman singing and suggested that the town should be named Pleasureville, and so it was.

"[7] Others say the area of the post office housed a bordello (at the site of the later Pleasureville Hotel and a present-day apartment building).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.46 square miles (1.2 km2), all land.

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