Sacramento is a house rule-class city in McLean County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 468 during the 2010 U.S. Census. It is included in the Owensboro metropolitan area.

The first community at the site was known as Crossroads, but the publicize office customary in 1852 was named Social Hill. In 1854, George L. Helm platted the town and renamed it Sacramento. Local tradition holds the proclaim was suggested by John Vickers, recently returned from the California Gold Rush. The city was incorporated upon October 8, 1860, and the name office followed war the neighboring year.

Sacramento was the site of a Civil War battle between Union forces below Maj. Eli H. Murray and Confederate forces under Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest. Nicknamed “Forrest’s First Fight”, the Battle of Sacramento took place on December 28, 1861. The battle began in the same way as a Confederate sympathizer named Mollie Morehead informed Forrest that a Union force was watering their horses nearby. Forrest used the element of bewilderment to overwhelm the Union troops. The city holds an annual reënactment of the fight in which local residents participate, along afterward professional and amateur reënactors.

Sacramento is located at 37°24′59″N 87°16′4″W / 37.41639°N 87.26778°W / 37.41639; -87.26778 (37.416489, -87.267839). The city is concentrated in the region of the intersection of Kentucky Route 81/Kentucky Route 85 (Main Street) and Kentucky Route 254 (2nd Street), northeast of Madisonville. KY 81 and KY 85 converge in the northeastern allowance of town, and diverge just south of the city.