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Eminence is a home rule-class city in Henry County, Kentucky, and is the largest city in Henry County.

Eminence had a population of 2,705 at the 2020 census, living in 1,080 households, the largest population in the city's history.

An area post office established in 1836 was moved to Eminence in 1850, and the city was formally incorporated in 1851.

The community was named for its supposed location at the highest point on the railroad line between Louisville and Lexington; the city stands on high ground at elevations up to about 960 feet, where several watersheds converge.

The Louisville and Frankfort Railroad, completed in 1849, crossed the New Castle-Shelbyville Turnpike at Eminence and was the catalyst for the town's growth; the town was formally surveyed in April 1854 after local landowner Gideon King granted the railroad a right of way through his land.

Eminence's City Municipal Building is a former railroad depot.

The Eminence Historic Commercial District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Kentucky Route 55 runs through Eminence as Main Street, leading north about 4 miles to New Castle, the county seat, and south about 12 miles to Shelbyville; the city covers about 2.9 square miles in southern Henry County and is bordered to the south by Shelby County.

Eminence is home to Eminence Speaker, a manufacturer of loudspeakers, and was once home to Eminence Male and Female High School, which grew to become Eminence College.

Education in Eminence is administered by the Eminence Independent School District, whose teams compete as the Warriors, and the city has the Henry County Public Library.