Greenup County

administration
The Greenup County Courthouse in Greenup, listed on the NRHP
US state :	Kentucky
Administrative headquarters :	Greenup
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse Main Street Room 102 Greenup, KY 41144
Foundation :	December 12, 1803
Made up from:	Mason County
Area code :	001 606
Demographics
Residents :	36,910 (2010)
Population density :	41.2 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	918 km²
Water surface :	22 km²
map

Greenup County is a county in the state of Kentucky in the United States . The county seat is Greenup . 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 the extreme northeast of Kentucky, borders Ohio in the northeast , separated by the Ohio River and has an area of 918 square kilometers, of which 22 square kilometers are water. In Kentucky, it is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Boyd County , Carter County, and Lewis Counties .

history

Christopher Greenup

Greenup County was formed on December 12, 1803 from parts of Mason County. It was named after Christopher Greenup , a governor and member of the US Congress .

The first hunters and fishermen roamed the country before 1669. The first documented visitor to the area was Christopher Gist, who was commissioned by the Ohio Land Company to explore the area in 1751 . In the same year he found an Indian settlement on both sides of the Ohio River , later called Lower Shawnee Town , and had a French trading post, among other things. The settlement was on the site of what is now South Portsmouth .

Thomas Walker was commissioned by the Loyal Land Company in 1784 to explore the country as part of a planned later British colonization.

20 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of October 1, 2017).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1810	2369	-
1820	4311	82%
1830	5852	35.7%
1840	6297	7.6%
1850	9654	53.3%
1860	8760	-9.3%
1870	11,463	30.9%
1880	13,371	16.6%
1890	11,911	-10.9%
1900	15,432	29.6%
1910	18,475	19.7%
1920	20,062	8.6%
1930	24,554	22.4%
1940	24,971	1.7%
1950	24,887	-0.3%
1960	29,238	17.5%
1970	33.192	13.5%
1980	39,132	17.9%
1990	36,742	-6.1%
2000	36,891	0.4%
2010	36,910	0.1%
1810-1890 1900–1990 2000 + 2010 Age pyramid of Greenup County (as of 2000)

Kentucky 2541 Bridge , listed on the NRHP

The Greenbo Lake

Remnants of the Buffalo Iron Furnace in Greenbo Lake State Resort Park

According to the 2000 census , Greenup County had 36,891 people in 14,536 households and 11,032 families. The population density was 41 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 98.07 percent white, 0.57 percent African American, 0.19 percent Native American, 0.38 percent Asian and 0.15 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.64 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.55 percent of the population.

Of the 14,536 households, 32.0 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 62.3 percent were married couples living together, 10.4 percent were single mothers, 24.1 percent were non-families, 21.7 percent were single households and 10.0 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 2.91 people.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 23.6 percent of residents under the age of 18, 7.9 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 27.9 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, and 26.0 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 14.6 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 92.8 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were 89.3 men statistically.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 32,142 , and the median income for a family is $ 38,928. Males had a median income of $ 35,475 versus $ 21,198 for females. The per capita income was $ 17,137. 11.6 percent of families and 14.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line. Of these, 18.6 percent were children or adolescents under the age of 18 and 9.9 percent were people over 65 years of age.