Guthrie is a home rule-class city[2] in Todd County, Kentucky, in the United States.[3] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2), all land.[4] The town was named for former Representative James Guthrie, the president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at its founding in 1867.[6] The town is also the birthplace of the first United States Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren.In December 2007, Matthew Colin Bailey, along with assistance from the College of Design, created schematic plans to revive the city.