Raceland is a home rule-class city in Greenup County, Kentucky, United States, in the Ohio River valley.

[4] The city of Raceland and the land surrounding it were part of a 5,000-acre (20 km2) Revolutionary War grant to Abraham Buford.

His son, Charles Buford, divided up the land and sold it in tracts.

In 1924, Jack O. Keene (who later established Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky), opened Raceland Race Course near the city.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Raceland has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.4 km2), all land.

21.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

When it was built in the 1920s, it was one of the largest railway car repair shops in the United States.