page_title: Hardin County, Kentucky
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Hardin County, Kentucky / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: An UH-1 Iroquois helicopter flies over the US Gold Bullion Depositiory.
context_page_description: Hardin County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Its county seat is Elizabethtown.
  The county was formed in 1792.
  Hardin County is part of the Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Louisville/Jefferson County—Elizabethtown-Bardstown, KY-IN Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 105,543.
  Hardin County is known for being the birthplace of former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, though the location is now part of neighboring LaRue County.
context_section_description: The economy of Hardin County is largely dominated by the adjacent Fort Knox Military Installation.
  The Army Human Resource Center, the largest construction project in the history of Fort Knox, began in November 2007. It is a $185 million, three-story, 880,000-square-foot (82,000 m²) complex, sitting on 104 acres (0.42 km²). As many as 2,100 new permanent human resources, information technology, and administrative white-collar civilian professionals will be working there.
  Officials expect that as many as 12,000 people, including the families of soldiers and civilian workers to relocate to the area as a result of the Fort Knox realignment of 2005.
  Approximately $1 billion in new federal and state construction, and infrastructure funds were committed to Fort Knox, and in the surrounding areas by the end of 2011 for Fort Knox realignment of 2005.
  Gov. Steve Beshear of Kentucky announced the creation of a task force to help Hardin County, and the surrounding counties prepare for the Fort Knox realignment. The group is "designed to meet specific needs" in areas such as transportation, economic development, education, water and sewer availability, and area wide planning.
  Hardin County is classified by the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) as both a moist county and a "limited dry county". Under ABC terminology, a "moist county" is an otherwise dry county in which at least one city has voted to allow sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption. The word "limited" means that at least one city within the county, or the county as a whole, has voted to allow alcohol sales in qualifying restaurants. In the case of Hardin County, Elizabethtown, Radcliff, and Vine Grove all voted to allow off-premises sales in October 2011. West Point has voted to allow sale of alcohol by the drink in restaurants that seat at least 50 and derive at least 70% of their revenue from food (including non-alcoholic beverages).
caption: Aerial view of the U.S. Gold Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.  Godman Army Airfield and the fort can be seen in the background.
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