The county seat of Warren County is Bowling Green. The area is 546 square miles. It became one of Kentucky's wealthiest counties in the 1870s. It is the twenty-fourth county in the county order. Warren County was created on December 14, 1796, from a portion of Logan County. Warren County is named for General Joseph Warren. He was a distinguished patriot who died in a battle on Bunker Hill during the Revolutionary War. Warren County borders Edmonson, Barren, Allen, Simpson, Logan and Butler. Settlement in Warren County, specifically Bowling Green, began with McFadden's Station, which was a trading post on the Barren River around 1785. By 1775, thirteen longtime trappers had carved their names on a tree in a further crossing of the Barren River. In the early 1790s, Robert Moore built a cabin near a spring in Warren County. In 1797, Robert Moore donated land for the construction of a town square and courthouse, and two years later the spring was given to public use. The log courthouse and jail were built on the square in March 1798, and the board of commissioners named the town Bowling Green. Between 1805 and 1809 a complication arose regarding the choice of location for the circuit court. On February 3, 1808, the General Assembly ordered the formation of a commission to explore the county for the purpose of repairing the permanent seat of justice. The location did not satisfy most Warren County residents, so the General Assembly ordered on January 16, 1809, that the court be moved back to the Bowling Green square. In 1810 and 1812, the legislature passed the Local Government Constitution and Regulations. By 1813, government functions were permanently stable in Bowling Green. The first police... halfway through the paper... learned that the entire army camped in the vicinity of Bowling Green would be moved as soon as possible, but it was also a relief to know that a battle would break out. do not take place here," Coombs writes. Some cities, communities and towns in Warren County are Bowling Green, Oakland, Plum Springs, Alvaton, Richpond, Woodburn, Smiths Grove, Plano and Rockfield. Michael Myers from the scary movie Halloween played many scenes in Smith Grove. The estimated population of Warren Counties in 2013 was 118,370. John Carpenter is a screenwriter, composer, producer, director, editor and actor. He is mainly related to science and horror fiction York, but moved to Bowling Green in 1953 when he was only about 5 years old. Nappy Roots is a Southern American rap group born in Bowling Green. Known for the song that was a hit single, “Po' Folks”.