Junction City is a house rule-class city in Boyle County on its attach with Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Junction City’s population was 2,241 at the 2010 U.S. census. It is ration of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Junction City began considering the Louisville and Nashville Railroad reached the area. It was originally known as “Goresburg” for the proprietors of the Gore Hotel. The Gore reveal office opened in 1880, and was renamed Goresburg in 1882. The town was renamed “Junction City” when the Cincinnati Southern Railway reached town far ahead that year, its tracks intersecting those of the L&N. The city was formally incorporated April 8, 1882, by the let in assembly. The L&N station there was known as “Danville Junction” for its proximity to the larger city of Danville.

The southeastern ration of Junction City was subsequent to the surgically remove town of Shelby City, incorporated in 1867, and named for Kentucky’s first commissioner Isaac Shelby, who lived and was buried nearby. This community’s separate post office was known as “South Danville” when it was established April 26, 1866, renamed Shelby City the next year (the eastern portion of Junction City is yet known as Shelby City), and closed in 1926. It was furthermore known as “Briartown” and its L&N station was called “Danville Station”. The tomb of Kentucky’s first governor, Isaac Shelby, and his homestead Traveler’s Rest, is located across the Lincoln County line, just south of this allowance of town.

Junction City is located at 37°35′07″N 84°47′19″W / 37.58528°N 84.78861°W / 37.58528; -84.78861.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.9 square miles (4.8 km), all land. The city lies in a expansive valley south of Danville, and just north of the link up between Boyle and Lincoln counties. Much of Junction City is concentrated along Shelby Street between the Cincinnati Southern tracks on the west and U.S. Route 127 upon the east. The allocation of town east of US 127 is known as “Shelby City.” Kentucky Route 37 and Kentucky Route 300 intersect in northwestern Junction City.