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The Paducah–Mayfield, KY-IL Combined Statistical Area is made up of four counties in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky, a fifth Kentucky county that borders the Purchase, and one county in southern Illinois. The statistical area includes the Paducah, KY-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Mayfield, KY micropolitan area. As of the ...
McCracken County is a county located in the far west portion of U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,875. [1] The county seat and only municipality is Paducah. [2]
Paducah (/ p ə ˈ d uː k ə / pə-DOO-kə) is a home rule-class city in the Upland South, and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. [6] The most populous city in the Jackson Purchase region, it is located in the Southeastern United States at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio rivers, halfway between St. Louis, Missouri, to the northwest and Nashville ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Paducah: Formerly known as the West Kentucky Industrial College from 1909 to 1936, renamed Artelia Anderson Hall from ...
Kentucky has both the largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi in water volume (Lake Cumberland) and surface area (Kentucky Lake). Kentucky Lake's 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline, 160,300 acres (64,900 hectares) of water surface, and 4,008,000 acre-feet (4.9 billion cubic meters) of flood storage are the most of any lake in the TVA ...
Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, fourth among states (including Virginia's independent cities). [1] The original motivation for having so many counties was to ensure that residents in the days of poor roads and horseback travel could make a round trip from their home to the county seat in a single day, as well as ...
U.S. Route 62 (US 62) in Kentucky runs for a total of 391.207 miles (629.587 km) across 20 counties in western, north-central, and northeastern Kentucky. [1] It enters the state by crossing the Ohio River near Wickliffe, then begins heading eastward at Bardwell, and traversing several cities and towns across the state up to Maysville, where it crosses the Ohio River a second time to enter the ...
Farley is a census-designated place (CDP) in McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 4,374 as of the 2020 census, [2] down from 4,701 in 2010. It is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.