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'''Franklin County''' is a [[County (United States)|county]] located in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Kentucky]]. As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], the population was 51,541, making it the 2nd least populous capital county in the [[United States]] after [[Hughes County, South Dakota|Hughes County]], [[South Dakota]].<ref name="QF">{{cite web|title=State & County QuickFacts|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/franklincountykentucky/PST045221|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=July 6, 2022}}</ref> Its [[county seat]] is [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]],<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=June 7, 2011 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011 }}</ref> the [[List of capitals in the United States#State capitals|state capital]]. The county was formed in 1795 from parts of [[Woodford County, Kentucky|Woodford]], [[Mercer County, Kentucky|Mercer]] and [[Shelby County, Kentucky|Shelby]] counties, and was named after the American inventor and statesman [[Benjamin Franklin]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ |title=The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 1 |publisher=Kentucky State Historical Society |year=1903 |pages=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ/page/n35 35]}}</ref>
Franklin County is part of the [[Frankfort, Kentucky micropolitan area|Frankfort, Kentucky Micropolitan Statistical Area]]. It shares a name with [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin County]] in [[Ohio]], where Columbus is located. This makes it one of two pairs of capital cities in counties of the same name, along with Marion Counties in [[Oregon]]f and [[Indiana]].
==History==
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