Sacramento is a home rule-class city in McLean County, Kentucky, in the United States.

The first community at the site was known as "Crossroads", but the post office established in 1852 was named "Social Hill".

[2] Local tradition holds the name was suggested by John Vickers, recently returned from the California Gold Rush.

[6] The battle began when a Confederate sympathizer named Mollie Morehead[6] informed Forrest that a Union force was watering their horses nearby.

[7] The city holds an annual reënactment of the battle in which local residents participate, along with professional and amateur reënactors.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Sacramento has a total area of 0.43 square miles (1.1 km2), all land.