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Corydon is a home rule-class city and former coal town in western Henderson County, Kentucky.

Corydon was settled in 1849 by the Dorsey brothers, John and William, and the town's post office also opened in 1849.

The city was named by John Dorsey's wife, Patsy, for Corydon, the hero of the popular 19th-century song "Pastoral Elegy," a figure himself named for a lovesick shepherd in Virgil's Eclogues.

Corydon was formally incorporated in 1867.

As of the 2020 census, Corydon had a population of 737, a slight increase from 720 in 2010.

Corydon's population peaked at 1,019 in the 1920 census, during its years as a coal town, before settling into the range of 700 to 800 residents for most of the past century.

The 2000 census counted 744 people in Corydon living in 271 households.

Corydon covers just 0.54 square miles, all land, making it one of Kentucky's more compact small cities.

U.S. Route 60 runs through Corydon as its Main Street, leading northeast about 9 miles to Henderson, the county seat, and southwest about 13 miles to Morganfield.

Corydon is the hometown of Happy Chandler, who served as the 44th and 49th governor of Kentucky and as Commissioner of Baseball from 1945 to 1951.