Elliott County

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Elliott County Courthouse
Elliott County Courthouse
administration
US state : Kentucky
Administrative headquarters : Sandy Hook
Address of the
administrative headquarters: 		County Courthouse
P.O. Box 710
Sandy Hook, KY 41171-0710
Foundation : January 26, 1869
Made up from: Carter County
Lawrence County
Morgan County
Area code : 001 606
Demographics
Residents : 7852  (2010)
Population density : 13 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area : 609 km²
Water surface : 3 km²
map
Map of Elliott County within Kentucky

Elliott County is a county in the state of Kentucky in the United States . The county seat is Sandy Hook , named after its location on a bend in the Little Sandy River . The county is part of the dry counties , which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

geography

The county is located in northeast Kentucky, about 60 km to the north from Ohio , about 35 km to the east from West Virginia , and has an area of ​​609 square kilometers, of which three square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Carter County , Lawrence County , Morgan County, and Rowan Counties .

history

Elliott County was formed on January 26, 1869 from parts of Carter County, Lawrence County and Morgan County. It was named after John Milton Elliott , a member of the US Congress .

One of the county's sites, the Conley-Greene Rockshelter (15EL4) , is on the National Register of Historic Places (as of September 7, 2017).

The county's voters have given the Democratic Party a majority vote in every presidential election in the United States since it was formed in 1869, with Barack Obama winning 49-47 percent in 2012, and over 85 percent of voters registered as Democrats. In the presidential election in 2016 succeeded the candidate of the Republicans , Donald Trump , to reach the majority of voters in the county for the first time. He received 70 percent of the vote against the 26 percent for the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton , in the below-average affluent area, which was characterized by former coal mining .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census Residents ± in%
1870 4433 -
1880 6567 48.1%
1890 9214 40.3%
1900 10,387 12.7%
1910 9814 -5.5%
1920 8887 -9.4%
1930 7571 -14.8%
1940 8713 15.1%
1950 7085 -18.7%
1960 6330 -10.7%
1970 5933 -6.3%
1980 6908 16.4%
1990 6455 -6.6%
2000 6748 4.5%
2010 7852 16.4%
1870-1890

1900–1990 2000 + 2010

Elliott County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

As of the 2000 census , Elliott County had 6,748 people in 2,638 households and 1,925 families. The population density was 11 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 99.0 percent white and 0.1 percent Native American people; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.6 percent of the population.

Of the 2,638 households, 33.4 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 60.0 percent were married couples living together, 9.7 percent were single mothers, 27.0 percent were non-families, 24.7 percent were single households, and 11.0 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.02.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 25.4 percent of residents under the age of 18, 9.1 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 27.5 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, and 24.7 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 13.4 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 95.2 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were statistically 93.5 men.

The median income for a household in the 21,014 USD , and the median income for a family was 27,125 USD. Males had a median income of $ 29,593 versus $ 20,339 for females. The per capita income was $ 12,067. 20.8 percent of families and 25.9 percent of the population are below the poverty line. Of these, 30.5 percent were children or adolescents under the age of 18 and 26.4 percent were people over 65 years of age.

Places in the county

See also

Web links

Commons : Elliott County  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GNIS-ID: 516878. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
  2. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed September 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ Jeff Simon, How Trump ended Democrats' 144-year winning streak in one county. In: CNN.com , December 9, 2016; Reuben Fischer-Baum: A Kentucky County Ended Its Historic Democratic Streak To Vote For Trump. In: FiveThirtyEight , November 10, 2016.
  4. ^ US Census Bureau _ Census of Population and Housing . Retrieved February 18, 2011
  5. ↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 18, 2011
  6. ↑ Excerpt from census.gov (2000 + 2010) ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2011 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 2, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / quickfacts.census.gov
  7. ^ Elliott County, Kentucky , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .

Coordinates: 38 ° 7 ′  N , 83 ° 6 ′  W