| Cecilia, Kentucky | |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Kentucky#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Cecilia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Kentucky |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Hardin |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 3.72 |
| Area Land Km2: | 3.71 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.02 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 575 |
| Population Density Km2: | 155.12 |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | EST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation Ft: | 705 |
| Coordinates: | 37.6658°N -85.9567°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 42724 |
| Area Code: | 270 & 364 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 21-13636 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 489160 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.44 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.43 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.01 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 401.82 |
Cecilia is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States. It is located 6miles west of Elizabethtown, the county seat. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 575, stagnant from the 2010 census population of 572.[2]
The town was formerly called "Cecilian Junction" because of its location at the junction of the Illinois Central Railroad's Louisville-Paducah main line and its branch to Hodgenville. (The line now belongs to the Paducah and Louisville Railway, and the branch is now truncated to Elizabethtown.) The community is part of the Elizabethtown–Fort Knox Metropolitan Statistical Area, and a significant part of the area served by the Cecilia post office is now within the Elizabethtown city limits.
Kentucky Route 86 runs through the town, ending just south of the town at an intersection with U.S. Route 62.
Cecilia is the home of Ron Lewis, who represented Kentucky's 2nd congressional district in the United States Congress between 1994 and 2009.[3]