Greenup County, Kentucky

Greenup County is a county located in the state of Kentucky in the United States. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Greenup. The county is one of the Dry counties, which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

Geography

The County is located in the extreme northeastern Kentucky, is bordered to the northeast Ohio, separated by the Ohio River and has an area of 918 square kilometers, of which 22 square kilometers are water surface. It borders in Kentucky clockwise to the following counties: Boyd County, Carter County and Lewis County.

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 U.S. Congress.

The first hunters and fishermen roamed the land before 1669th The first documented visitors in this area was Christopher Gist, who was commissioned in 1751 by the Ohio Land Company with exploring the area. He was in the same year an Indian settlement on both sides of the Ohio River, later called Lower Shawnee Town, and had among other things, a French trading post. The settlement was located on the site of the present South Portsmouth.

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

Demographic data

1900-1990 2000 2010

According to the census in 2000 lived in Greenup County 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 made ​​up 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 races; 0.64 percent were descended from two or more races. 0.55 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 14,536 households out of which 32.0 percent have children 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 of all households and 10.0 percent lived in people aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 2.91.

Based on the county the population was spread from 23.6 percent population under 18 years, 7.9 percent between 18 and 24 years, 27.9 percent between 25 and 44 years, 26.0 percent between 45 and 64 years and 14.6 percent were 65 years old or older. The average age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 92.8 males. For every 100 females aged 18 years old or over, there were 89.3 men statistically.

The median income for a household was $ 32,142, and the median income for a family was $ 38,928. Males have a median income of $ 35,475, women $ 21,198. 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 age 18 and 9.9 percent of those 65 years.

Places in County

  • Argillite
  • Beechy
  • Bellefonte
  • Brushart
  • Danleyton
  • Edgington
  • Flatwoods
  • Frost
  • Fullerton
  • Grays 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
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