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Raceland is a home rule-class city in eastern Greenup County, Kentucky, located in the Ohio River valley as part of the Huntington-Ashland metropolitan area.

The land under Raceland was part of a 5,000-acre Revolutionary War grant to Abraham Buford, whose son Charles divided the grant into tracts that were later sold off as town lots.

The town was laid out by Benjamen Chinn and named Chinnville in his honor, and its first post office was established on March 7, 1910.

Raceland was incorporated as a city on July 31, 1915, while it still carried the Chinnville name.

In 1924, Jack O. Keene opened the Raceland Race Course beside the town, and on April 1, 1925, the city took the track's name and became Raceland.

When the racetrack was abandoned, the town briefly reverted to the Chinnville name before becoming Raceland again for good on April 1, 1930.

Keene, the Raceland track's founder, went on to establish Keeneland, the famous race course in Lexington.

The 2020 census counted 2,343 residents in Raceland, down slightly from 2,424 in 2010, living in 1,010 households.

The city covers about 2.5 square miles along U.S. Route 23 (Seaton Avenue), bordered by Worthington, Flatwoods, and Wurtland, about 7 miles northwest of Ashland.

Raceland is home to the Raceland Car Shop, built in the 1920s as one of the largest railway car repair shops in the United States for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and now owned by Progress Rail beside CSX's Russell Classification Yard.