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Cloverport is a home rule-class city in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, on the banks of the Ohio River where Clover Creek meets the river.

The population of Cloverport was 1,119 at the 2020 census.

Cloverport was founded around 1798 as Joesville by Joe Huston, on the east side of the mouth of Clover Creek.

In 1816, ferryman Jacob Weatherholt piloted the family of seven-year-old Abraham Lincoln across the Ohio River at Cloverport as the Lincolns moved to a new farm in Spencer County, Indiana.

The town was renamed Cloverport in 1828 after nearby Clover Creek, and its post office opened the same year.

Cloverport was formally incorporated by an act of the Kentucky state assembly in 1860.

In the nineteenth century Cloverport had a button factory that used mussel shells from the Ohio River, and its Victoria Coal Mines produced coal oil from cannel coal that was used to light Buckingham Palace.

In 1892 Cloverport became home to the maintenance shops of the Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis Railroad, which employed about 200 men; the shops closed in 1929 after the railroad was bought out.

A fire on March 13, 1901, destroyed almost all of Cloverport's business buildings and left about half of the town's residents homeless.

In the great Ohio River flood of 1937, about seventy percent of Cloverport's residents were affected by the flood waters, the worst flooding in the town's history.