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Hodgenville is a home rule-class city and the county seat of LaRue County in central Kentucky.

Hodgenville is named for Robert Hodgen, a miller who bought 10,000 acres in the area and built a mill at the site in 1789, and after his death the community was named at the request of his widow and children.

Hodgenville's post office was spelled Hodgensville from 1826 until 1904.

Hodgenville was formally incorporated by the state assembly on February 18, 1836, and it became the county seat when LaRue County was created in 1843.

Hodgenville sits along the North Fork of the Nolin River and is part of the Elizabethtown metropolitan area.

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a small cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville on February 12, 1809, and his family moved to another nearby farm at Knob Creek about two years later.

The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park just south of Hodgenville preserves the Sinking Spring Farm site, where a memorial building encloses a symbolic log cabin representing Lincoln's birthplace cabin.

Two bronze statues of Lincoln, one as a boy and one as an adult, stand on Hodgenville's town square, and the Lincoln Museum is located downtown.

U.S. Route 31E runs through the center of Hodgenville, and Kentucky Route 61 connects the city to Elizabethtown, about 12 miles to the northwest.

Hodgenville covers about 2.19 square miles.