Owingsville Map
Owingsville is a city in Bath County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,488 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Bath County, and is roughly in the center of the county, at the junction of US 60 and Kentucky Route 36.
Owingsville is part of the Mount Sterling Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Land for the town was donated by Richard Menefee, a politician and father of Representative Richard Hickman Menefee, and Thomas Dye Owings, owner of a local iron foundry. A local story is that both men wanted to name the town, and the honor was given to Owings after he won a contest to build a finer home. The town was incorporated in 1829.
Nearby cities include Mount Sterling, Jeffersonville, Frenchburg, Morehead, Carlisle.