Carter County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,627. [1] Its county seat is Grayson. [2] Carter County is in the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is home to Carter Caves State Resort Park.

Our mission in county government is to create an open honest structure that encourages personal participation in economic, individual, and social development for a united county we can proudly call home.

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Carter County is the 88th county that was formed in Kentucky. Carter County was named for Colonel William Grayson Carter, State Senator 1834-1838. Carter County was created from Greenup and Lawrence Counties.

Carter County, the 88th erected in the state, was formed in 1838, out of parts of Greenup and Lawrence and named in honor of Colonel William G. Carter, then and for four years the state senator from the counties of Lewis, Greenup and Lawrence.

Carter County is beginning a new era of citizen involvement in the direction of its government, prosperity, and individual well being. Our county is united as never before in its effort to …