Place:Radcliff, Hardin, Kentucky, United States

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Radcliff is a city in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 21,961 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Elizabethtown, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Its economy is largely dominated by the county seat of Hardin County, Elizabethtown, as well as Fort Knox, as it sits by the entrance to the base. Prior to the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) reorganization, Radcliff’s population reflected the transient nature of military officers who worked on the base. Since BRAC, and the relocation of the Human Resources Command (HRC) to Fort Knox, which is expected to have a net gain of about 5,000 full-time civilian and permanent military personnel assigned to the base, creating a more stable population, and providing an economic boost to Radcliff and the surrounding areas.

In 1988, a youth group from the First Assembly of God in Radcliff was involved in the worst drunk-driving accident in U.S. history, a bus accident in which a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 hit the group's vehicle, killing 27 people in the crash and the resulting fire.

In mid Oct, of 2011 the city voted on the approval of alcohol sales. With over 3000 approving the sales Radcliff began the sale of alcohol beginning in early Jan 2012.

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