Ballard County is located in extreme western Kentucky at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.  Ballard County is part of the region known as the Jackson Purchase.  Comprising an area of 254 square miles, Ballard County, the ninety-third county in order of formation, was established on February 15, 1842, out of parts of Hickman and McCracken counties and named in honor of Capt. Bland Ballard, a participant in the battle of Fallen Timbers (1793) and the River Raisin (1813), and a member of the Kentucky General Assembly.