Who runs my county?

Kentucky fiscal courts and elected county officers — all 120 counties, free, by address, ZIP, or a tap on the map.

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A Kentucky county is governed by its fiscal court. The court is the county judge/executive, who runs the county and presides, and either magistrates elected from magisterial districts or three commissioners. Louisville and Lexington are the two exceptions: Jefferson and Fayette counties merged with their cities, so the Louisville Metro Council and the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council govern them instead. The lookup finds your county and lists who sits on its governing body and who holds its elected offices.

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Opens the map with the county layer on. Search your address or ZIP, or tap your location.

What the lookup shows

Select any point in Kentucky and the county card names the county, then lists its governing body — the judge/executive and every magistrate or commissioner, or in Jefferson and Fayette the mayor and the council — and its elected officers: the county attorney, clerk, sheriff, jailer, coroner and property valuation administrator, with the telephone and e-mail the state lists for each.

It lists the whole court rather than only your magistrate, because the state's list does not say which district each magistrate holds and the district lines are not on the map yet. In the counties with three commissioners, each commissioner is elected by the whole county's voters, one living in each district.

Where the names come from

The Kentucky Department for Local Government keeps a directory of every county's officials, one page per county. This app reads all 120 pages every week and lists the officials as the directory names them, leaving out the staff it also lists, such as the treasurer. The directory does not say when a county last updated its entry, so your county's own website is the current word.

Jefferson's and Fayette's councils come from the same department's city directory, where Louisville Metro and Lexington-Fayette are listed as cities.

Where the boundaries come from

The county lines come from the U.S. Census Bureau. The magisterial and commissioner district lines are not on the map yet: most Kentucky counties do not publish them as map data. Every source is on the sources & data layers page.

Not for legal or official use. Boundary and officeholder data come from public sources that explicitly disclaim legal precision. Confirm officeholders with your county before relying on them for anything official.

Every county government, county by county

Every Kentucky county whose roster this project has: 120 counties, 720 people, each name as the Kentucky Department for Local Government's county directory lists it.

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