Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Sacramento, KY

Sacramento is a home rule-class city in McLean County, Kentucky, and is included in the Owensboro metropolitan area.

The first community at the site was known as Crossroads, and the post office established there in 1852 was named Social Hill.

In 1854, George L. Helm platted the town and renamed it Sacramento; local tradition holds that the name was suggested by John Vickers, who had recently returned from the California Gold Rush.

Sacramento was incorporated on October 8, 1860.

On December 28, 1861, Sacramento was the site of a Civil War battle in which Confederate cavalry under Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest routed a Union force under Major Eli H. Murray, an engagement nicknamed Forrest's First Fight.

The battle began after a Confederate sympathizer, Mollie Morehead, informed Forrest that a Union force was watering its horses nearby, allowing Forrest to achieve complete surprise.

The Sacramento battlefield was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, and the city holds an annual reenactment of the battle with local residents and reenactors.

Sacramento is concentrated around the junction of Kentucky Routes 81 and 85, which form its Main Street, with Kentucky Route 254 in southern McLean County; KY 81 leads north about 10 miles to Calhoun, the county seat.

As of the 2020 census, Sacramento had a population of 429, down from 468 in 2010.

The 2000 census counted 517 people, 219 households, and 150 families residing in Sacramento.