Warsaw is a home rule-class city in Kentucky and serves as the county seat of Gallatin County. Located along the Ohio River, it sits in the northern part of the state in a region shaped by the waterway's geography and commerce.
The city's name has a literary origin. When Warsaw was being founded, a riverboat captain who was reading Thaddeus of Warsaw, a novel by Jane Porter, suggested the name for the emerging settlement. This unusual naming circumstance reflects the role of river traffic and the people who worked on the Ohio River in the city's early development.