Greenup County
The Greenup County Courthouse in Greenup, listed on the NRHP |
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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 |
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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
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 | |||
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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 |
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.
Places in the county
- Argillite
- Beechy
- Bellefonte
- Brush art
- Danleyton
- Edgington
- Flatwoods
- frost
- Fullerton
- Gray's Branch
- Greenup
- Hopewell
- Hunnewell
- Kehoe
- Letitia
- Limeville
- Lloyd
- Load
- Lynn
- Maloneton
- Melrose
- Naples
- Oldtown
- Oliver Station
- Poplar Highlands
- Raceland
- Raceland Junction
- Riverview
- Russell
- Russell Heights
- Samaria
- Siloam
- South Portsmouth
- South Shore
- Sunshine
- Truitt
- Tygarts Valley
- Walsh
- Warnock
- West Russell
- Worthington
- Wurtland
- York
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ GNIS-ID: 516891. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed October 1, 2017.
- ^ US Census Bureau _ Census of Population and Housing . Retrieved February 18, 2011
- ↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 18, 2011
- ↑ Excerpt from census.gov (2000 + 2010) ( Memento of the original from July 11, 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
- ^ Greenup County, Kentucky , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .
Coordinates: 38 ° 32 ' N , 82 ° 55' W