Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pendleton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2000, the population was 14,390. Its county seat is Falmouth. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 282 square miles (730 km2), of which 281 square miles (728 km2) is land and 1 square mile (3 km2) is water. The County was named after Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803), a longtime member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1752-74), the Continental Congress and chief justice of Virginia.