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href="#2010_census"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>2010 census</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2010_census-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2000_census" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2000_census"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>2000 census</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2000_census-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Economy</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Economy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Economy subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" 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also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc 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interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%AF%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%8C_%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C" title="پدوکا، کنتاکی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="پدوکا، کنتاکی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah_(Kentucky)" title="Paducah (Kentucky) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Paducah (Kentucky)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah_(Kentucky)" title="Paducah (Kentucky) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Paducah (Kentucky)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah_(kapital_sa_kondado_sa_Tinipong_Bansa,_Kentucky)" title="Paducah (kapital sa kondado sa Tinipong Bansa, Kentucky) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Paducah (kapital sa kondado sa Tinipong Bansa, Kentucky)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dag mw-list-item"><a href="https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah" title="Paducah – Dagbani" lang="dag" hreflang="dag" data-title="Paducah" data-language-autonym="Dagbanli" data-language-local-name="Dagbani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dagbanli</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah" title="Paducah – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Paducah" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah_(Kentucky)" title="Paducah (Kentucky) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Paducah (Kentucky)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah_(Kentucky)" title="Paducah (Kentucky) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Paducah (Kentucky)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah_(Kentucky)" title="Paducah (Kentucky) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Paducah (Kentucky)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%8C_%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C" title="پادوکا، کنتاکی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پادوکا، کنتاکی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah_(Kentucky)" title="Paducah (Kentucky) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Paducah (Kentucky)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah_(Kentucky)" title="Paducah (Kentucky) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Paducah (Kentucky)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0_(%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B8)" title="Падука (Кентукки) – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Падука (Кентукки)" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah,_Kentucky" title="Paducah, Kentucky – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah" title="Paducah – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Paducah" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah_(Kentucky)" title="Paducah (Kentucky) – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Paducah (Kentucky)" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah_(Kentucky)" title="Paducah (Kentucky) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Paducah (Kentucky)" data-language-autonym="Polski" 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Kentucky – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Paducah, Kentucky" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah_(Kentucky)" title="Paducah (Kentucky) – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Paducah (Kentucky)" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%98%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0_(%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8)" title="Падјука (Кентаки) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Падјука (Кентаки)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah,_Kentucky" title="Paducah, Kentucky – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Paducah, Kentucky" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paducah,_Kentucky" title="Paducah, Kentucky – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Paducah, Kentucky" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0_(%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B8)" title="Педука (Кентукки) – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" 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href="/wiki/File:McCracken_County_Kentucky_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Paducah_Highlighted_2158836.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location of Paducah in McCracken County, Kentucky"><img alt="Location of Paducah in McCracken County, Kentucky" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/McCracken_County_Kentucky_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Paducah_Highlighted_2158836.svg/250px-McCracken_County_Kentucky_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Paducah_Highlighted_2158836.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/McCracken_County_Kentucky_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Paducah_Highlighted_2158836.svg/375px-McCracken_County_Kentucky_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Paducah_Highlighted_2158836.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="latitude">37°4′20″N</span> <span class="longitude">88°37′39″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">37.07222°N 88.62750°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">37.07222; -88.62750</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">State</th><td class="infobox-data">Kentucky</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Kentucky" title="List of counties in Kentucky">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/McCracken_County,_Kentucky" title="McCracken County, Kentucky">McCracken</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Settled</th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="circa">c.</span><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1821</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1830<sup id="cite_ref-sos_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Incorporated</th><td class="infobox-data">1838<sup id="cite_ref-sos_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Namesake" title="Namesake">Named for</a></th><td class="infobox-data">the <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw" title="Chickasaw">Chickasaw</a> <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Tribe</a><sup id="cite_ref-ren_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ren-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/City_Manager" class="mw-redirect" title="City Manager">City Manager</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Mayor</th><td class="infobox-data">George Bray</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=City_Commissioners&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="City Commissioners (page does not exist)">City Commissioners</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Sandra Wilson. Raynarldo Henderson, Robert Smith, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dujuan_Thomas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dujuan Thomas (page does not exist)">Dujuan Thomas</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-CenPopGazetteer2020_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CenPopGazetteer2020-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_Kentucky_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kentucky cities">City</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">20.75 sq mi (53.74 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">20.30 sq mi (52.59 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">0.45 sq mi (1.15 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">341 ft (104 m)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020</a>)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/List_of_Kentucky_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kentucky cities">City</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">27,137</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Estimate <div class="ib-settlement-fn">(2023)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></th><td class="infobox-data">27,205</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">1,336.60/sq mi (516.06/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_area" title="Metropolitan area">Metro</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">103,481</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Paducahan</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%926" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−6">UTC−6</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">CST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%925" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−5">UTC−5</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">CDT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">ZIP Code</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">42001-42002-42003</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan" title="Telephone numbering plan">Area code(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Area_codes_270_and_364" title="Area codes 270 and 364">270 & 364</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Information Processing Standard">FIPS code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">21-58836</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_Names_Information_System" title="Geographic Names Information System">GNIS</a> feature ID</th><td class="infobox-data">0500106</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://paducahky.gov">paducahky<wbr />.gov</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Paducah</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">pə-<span style="font-size:90%">DOO</span>-kə</i></a>) is a <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Kentucky" title="List of cities in Kentucky">home rule-class city</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Upland_South" title="Upland South">Upland South</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a> of <a href="/wiki/McCracken_County,_Kentucky" title="McCracken County, Kentucky">McCracken County, Kentucky</a>, United States.<sup id="cite_ref-GR6_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR6-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The largest city in the <a href="/wiki/Jackson_Purchase" title="Jackson Purchase">Jackson Purchase</a> region, it is located in the <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_United_States" title="Southeastern United States">Southeastern United States</a> at the confluence of the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_River" title="Tennessee River">Tennessee</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_River" title="Ohio River">Ohio</a> rivers, halfway between <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis, Missouri</a>, to the northwest and <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>, to the southeast. As of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020 census</a>, the population was 27,137,<sup id="cite_ref-USCensusEst2019_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCensusEst2019-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> up from 25,024 in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-GR8_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR8-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Twenty blocks of the city's downtown have been designated as a historic district and listed on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a>. </p><p>Paducah is the principal city of the <a href="/wiki/Paducah_micropolitan_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Paducah micropolitan area">Paducah metropolitan area</a>, which includes McCracken, <a href="/wiki/Ballard_County,_Kentucky" title="Ballard County, Kentucky">Ballard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlisle_County,_Kentucky" title="Carlisle County, Kentucky">Carlisle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Livingston_County,_Kentucky" title="Livingston County, Kentucky">Livingston</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Kentucky" title="List of counties in Kentucky">counties</a> in Kentucky and <a href="/wiki/Massac_County,_Illinois" title="Massac County, Illinois">Massac County</a> in <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>. The total population of the metro area was 103,481 in 2020. The <a href="/wiki/Combined_statistical_area" title="Combined statistical area">Paducah–Mayfield combined statistical area</a> had a total population of 140,138. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history">Early history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kentucky_-_Paducah_through_St._Matthews_-_NARA_-_23940335_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Kentucky_-_Paducah_through_St._Matthews_-_NARA_-_23940335_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Kentucky_-_Paducah_through_St._Matthews_-_NARA_-_23940335_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Kentucky_-_Paducah_through_St._Matthews_-_NARA_-_23940335_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Kentucky_-_Paducah_through_St._Matthews_-_NARA_-_23940335_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Kentucky_-_Paducah_through_St._Matthews_-_NARA_-_23940335_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Kentucky_-_Paducah_through_St._Matthews_-_NARA_-_23940335_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3572" data-file-height="2683" /></a><figcaption>Paducah in 1933</figcaption></figure> <p><span class="anchor" id="Pekin"></span> Paducah was first settled as "Pekin" around 1821 by European Americans James and William Pore.<sup id="cite_ref-ren_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ren-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town was laid out by explorer and surveyor <a href="/wiki/William_Clark_(explorer)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Clark (explorer)">William Clark</a> in 1827 and renamed Paducah. </p><p>Although local lore long connected this name to an eponymous <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw" title="Chickasaw">Chickasaw</a> chief "Paduke" and his band of "Paducahs", authorities on the Chickasaw have since said that there was never any chief or tribe of that name, or anything like it. The Chickasaw language does not have related words. Instead, historians believe that Clark named the town for the <a href="/wiki/Comanche" title="Comanche">Comanche</a> people of the western plains.<sup id="cite_ref-ren_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ren-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were known by regional settlers as the <i>Padoucas</i>, from a Spanish transliteration of the <a href="/wiki/Kansa_language" title="Kansa language">Kaw</a> word <i>Pádoka</i><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the <a href="/wiki/Omaha_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Omaha language">Omaha</a> <i>Pádoⁿka</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Incorporation,_steamboats_and_railroads"><span id="Incorporation.2C_steamboats_and_railroads"></span>Incorporation, steamboats and railroads</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Incorporation, steamboats and railroads"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kentucky._Paducah,_wharf_scene_LCCN2013646142.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Kentucky._Paducah%2C_wharf_scene_LCCN2013646142.jpg/220px-Kentucky._Paducah%2C_wharf_scene_LCCN2013646142.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Kentucky._Paducah%2C_wharf_scene_LCCN2013646142.jpg/330px-Kentucky._Paducah%2C_wharf_scene_LCCN2013646142.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Kentucky._Paducah%2C_wharf_scene_LCCN2013646142.jpg/440px-Kentucky._Paducah%2C_wharf_scene_LCCN2013646142.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="981" /></a><figcaption>The wharf in Paducah, 1890</figcaption></figure> <p><span class="anchor" id="incorporation"></span><span class="anchor" id="steamboats"></span><span class="anchor" id="railroads"></span> Paducah was formally established as a town in 1830 and incorporated as a <a href="/wiki/List_of_Ky_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Ky cities">city</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Kentucky Assembly">state legislature</a> in 1838.<sup id="cite_ref-sos_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sos-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city charter was drafted by <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Quincy_Quigley" title="Quintus Quincy Quigley">Quintus Quincy Quigley</a> and H. Clay King in 1856.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By this time, steam boats traversed the river system, and its port facilities were important to trade and transportation. In addition, developing railroads began to enter the region. A factory for making red bricks, and a foundry for making rail and locomotive components became the nucleus of a thriving "River and Rail" economy. Paducah became the site of dry dock facilities for steamboats and towboats, and thus headquarters for many barge companies. Because of its proximity to <a href="/wiki/Western_Kentucky_coalfields" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Kentucky coalfields">coalfields</a> further to the east in Kentucky and north in <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, Paducah also became an important railway hub for the <a href="/wiki/Illinois_Central_Railroad" title="Illinois Central Railroad">Illinois Central Railroad</a>. This was the primary north–south railway connecting the industrial cities of Chicago and <a href="/wiki/East_St._Louis,_Illinois" title="East St. Louis, Illinois">East St. Louis</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" title="Gulf of Mexico">Gulf of Mexico</a> at <a href="/wiki/Gulfport,_Mississippi" title="Gulfport, Mississippi">Gulfport, Mississippi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>. The Illinois Central system also provided east–west links to the <a href="/wiki/Burlington_Northern_Railroad" title="Burlington Northern Railroad">Burlington Northern</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Atchison,_Topeka,_and_Santa_Fe_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway">Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railways</a> (which later merged to become the <a href="/wiki/BNSF_Railway" title="BNSF Railway">BNSF Railway</a>). </p><p>In 1924 the Illinois Central Railroad began construction at Paducah of their largest locomotive <a href="/wiki/Workshop" title="Workshop">workshop</a> in the nation. Over a period of 190 days, a large ravine between Washington and Jones streets was filled with 44,560 carloads of dirt to enlarge the site, sufficient for the construction of 23 buildings. The eleven million dollar project was completed in 1927 as the fourth-largest industrial plant in Kentucky. The railroad became the largest employer in Paducah, having 1,075 employees in 1938. </p><p>As <a href="/wiki/Steam_locomotive" title="Steam locomotive">steam locomotives</a> were replaced through the 1940s and 1950s, the Paducah shops were converted to maintain <a href="/wiki/Diesel_locomotive" title="Diesel locomotive">diesel locomotives</a>. A nationally known rebuilding program for aging diesel locomotives from Illinois Central and other railroads began in 1967. The shops became part of the <a href="/wiki/Paducah_and_Louisville_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Paducah and Louisville Railway">Paducah and Louisville Railway</a> in 1986. In the early 21st century, they are operated by VMV Paducahbilt.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civil_War">Civil War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Kentucky in the American Civil War">Kentucky in the American Civil War</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_Anderson._Fort_Anderson,_Paducah,_Kentucky,_and_the_camp_of_the_6th_Illinois_Cavalry,_April,_1862_-_sketched_by_A.E._Mathews,_31st_Regt._O.V.U.S.A._LCCN92508857.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Fort_Anderson._Fort_Anderson%2C_Paducah%2C_Kentucky%2C_and_the_camp_of_the_6th_Illinois_Cavalry%2C_April%2C_1862_-_sketched_by_A.E._Mathews%2C_31st_Regt._O.V.U.S.A._LCCN92508857.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Fort_Anderson._Fort_Anderson%2C_Paducah%2C_Kentucky%2C_and_the_camp_of_the_6th_Illinois_Cavalry%2C_April%2C_1862_-_sketched_by_A.E._Mathews%2C_31st_Regt._O.V.U.S.A._LCCN92508857.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Fort_Anderson._Fort_Anderson%2C_Paducah%2C_Kentucky%2C_and_the_camp_of_the_6th_Illinois_Cavalry%2C_April%2C_1862_-_sketched_by_A.E._Mathews%2C_31st_Regt._O.V.U.S.A._LCCN92508857.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Fort_Anderson_(Kentucky)" title="Fort Anderson (Kentucky)">Fort Anderson</a> was the site of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paducah" title="Battle of Paducah">Battle of Paducah</a> in March 1864.</figcaption></figure> <p>At the outset of the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>, Kentucky attempted to take a neutral position. However, when a Confederate force occupied Columbus, a <a href="/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> force under General <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a> responded by occupying Paducah. Throughout most of the war, <a href="/wiki/Colonel_(U.S.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonel (U.S.)">Col.</a> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_G._Hicks" title="Stephen G. Hicks">Stephen G. Hicks</a> was in charge of Paducah, and the town served as a massive supply depot for Federal forces along the Ohio, Mississippi, and Tennessee river systems. </p><p>On December 17, 1862, under the terms of <a href="/wiki/General_Order_No._11_(1862)" title="General Order No. 11 (1862)">General Order No. 11</a>, US forces required 30 Jewish families to leave their long-established homes. Grant was trying to break up a black market in cotton, in which he assumed Jewish traders were involved due to <a href="/wiki/Racial_stereotyping" class="mw-redirect" title="Racial stereotyping">racial stereotyping</a> associated with <a href="/wiki/Anti-Semitic_tropes" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Semitic tropes">anti-Semitic tropes</a>. <a href="/wiki/Cesar_Kaskel" title="Cesar Kaskel">Cesar Kaskel</a>, a prominent local Jewish businessman, dispatched a telegram of complaint to <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._presidents" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. presidents">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln</a> and met with him. As there were similar actions taken by other Jewish businessmen and loud complaints by Congress about the treatment of their constituents, Lincoln ordered the policy to be revoked within a few weeks.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 25, 1864, <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate</a> Gen. <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest" title="Nathan Bedford Forrest">Nathan Bedford Forrest</a> raided Paducah as part of his campaign northward from <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a> into Western Tennessee and Kentucky. He intended to re-supply the Confederate forces in the region with recruits, ammunition, medical supplies, horses and mules, and especially to disrupt the <a href="/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> domination of the regions south of the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_River" title="Ohio River">Ohio River</a>. Known as the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paducah" title="Battle of Paducah">Battle of Paducah</a>, the raid was successful in terms of the re-supply effort and in intimidating the Union, but Forrest returned south. According to his report, "I drove the enemy to their gunboats and fort; and held the city for ten hours, captured many stores and horses; burned sixty bales of cotton, one steamer, and a drydock, bringing out fifty prisoners."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much of the fighting took place around <a href="/wiki/Fort_Anderson_(Kentucky)" title="Fort Anderson (Kentucky)">Fort Anderson</a> on the city's west side, in the present-day <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lower_Town_Neighborhood_District&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lower Town Neighborhood District (page does not exist)">Lower Town neighborhood</a>; most buildings in the neighborhood postdate the war, as most of the neighborhood was demolished soon after the battle to deny any future raids the advantage of surprise that they had enjoyed during the battle. Among the few houses that were not destroyed is the <a href="/wiki/David_Yeiser_House" title="David Yeiser House">David Yeiser House</a>, a single-story <a href="/wiki/Greek_Revival_architecture" title="Greek Revival architecture">Greek Revival</a> structure.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later having read in the newspapers that 140 fine horses had escaped the raid, Forrest sent Brigadier General Abraham Buford back to Paducah, to get the horses and to keep Union forces busy there while he attacked <a href="/wiki/Fort_Pillow,_Tennessee" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Pillow, Tennessee">Fort Pillow</a> in Tennessee. His forces were charged with a massacre of <a href="/wiki/United_States_Colored_Troops" title="United States Colored Troops">United States Colored Troops</a> among the Union forces whom they defeated at the fort. On April 14, 1864, Buford's men found the horses hidden in a Paducah foundry, as reported by the newspapers. Buford rejoined Forrest with the spoils, leaving the Union in control of Paducah until the end of the War. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1937_flood">1937 flood</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1937 flood"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1884_Paducah,Kentucky_Flood.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/1884_Paducah%2CKentucky_Flood.jpg/220px-1884_Paducah%2CKentucky_Flood.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/1884_Paducah%2CKentucky_Flood.jpg/330px-1884_Paducah%2CKentucky_Flood.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/1884_Paducah%2CKentucky_Flood.jpg/440px-1884_Paducah%2CKentucky_Flood.jpg 2x" data-file-width="13175" data-file-height="9978" /></a><figcaption>1884 flood</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Palmer_Hotel_after_flood_-_NARA_-_279790.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Palmer_Hotel_after_flood_-_NARA_-_279790.jpg/220px-Palmer_Hotel_after_flood_-_NARA_-_279790.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Palmer_Hotel_after_flood_-_NARA_-_279790.jpg/330px-Palmer_Hotel_after_flood_-_NARA_-_279790.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Palmer_Hotel_after_flood_-_NARA_-_279790.jpg/440px-Palmer_Hotel_after_flood_-_NARA_-_279790.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1767" /></a><figcaption>Downtown Paducah in the aftermath of the 1937 flood</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ohio_River_flood_of_1937" title="Ohio River flood of 1937">Ohio River flood of 1937</a></div> <p>In a far-reaching flood, on January 21, 1937, the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_River" title="Ohio River">Ohio River</a> at Paducah rose above its 50-foot (15 m) flood stage, cresting at 60.8 feet (18.5 m) on February 2 and receding again to 50 feet on February 15. For nearly three weeks, 27,000 residents were forced to flee or to stay with friends and relatives on higher ground in McCracken or other counties. The <a href="/wiki/American_Red_Cross" title="American Red Cross">American Red Cross</a> and local churches provided some shelters. Buildings in downtown Paducah still bear historic plaques that define the <a href="/wiki/High_water_mark" title="High water mark">high water marks</a>. </p><p>Driven by 18 inches (460 mm) of rainfall in 16 days, along with sheets of swiftly moving ice, the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_River_flood_of_1937" title="Ohio River flood of 1937">Ohio River flood of 1937</a> was the worst natural disaster in Paducah's history and elsewhere in the Ohio Valley. The earthen levee was ineffective against this flood. As a result, Congress authorized the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Corps_of_Engineers" title="United States Army Corps of Engineers">United States Army Corps of Engineers</a> to build the <a href="/wiki/Flood_wall" title="Flood wall">flood wall</a> that now protects the city. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Atomic_City">Atomic City</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Atomic City"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Paducah_Gaseous_Diffusion_Plant" title="Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant">Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant</a></div> <p>In 1950, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Commission" title="United States Atomic Energy Commission">U.S. Atomic Energy Commission</a> selected Paducah as the site for a new <a href="/wiki/Uranium_enrichment" class="mw-redirect" title="Uranium enrichment">uranium enrichment</a> plant. Construction began in 1951 and the plant opened for operations in 1952. Originally operated by <a href="/wiki/Union_Carbide" title="Union Carbide">Union Carbide</a>, the plant has changed hands several times. <a href="/wiki/Martin_Marietta" title="Martin Marietta">Martin Marietta</a>, its successor company <a href="/wiki/Lockheed-Martin" class="mw-redirect" title="Lockheed-Martin">Lockheed-Martin</a>, and now the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Enrichment_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Enrichment Corporation">United States Enrichment Corporation</a> have operated the plant in turn. The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energy" title="United States Department of Energy">U.S. Department of Energy</a> (DOE), successor to the AEC, remains the owner. The plant was closed in June 2013, and the Department of Energy began the process of decontaminating and shutting down the facilities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quilt_City">Quilt City</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Quilt City"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On April 25, 1991, the <a href="/wiki/National_Quilt_Museum" title="National Quilt Museum">National Quilt Museum</a> opened in downtown Paducah.<sup id="cite_ref-Nickell_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nickell-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paducah has been part of the <a href="/wiki/Creative_Cities_Network" title="Creative Cities Network">UNESCO Creative Cities Network</a> in the category of craft and folk art since November 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPR_2022-04-29_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR_2022-04-29-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The national quilt show takes place yearly at the Schroeder Expo Center. The American Quilter's Society hosts a week of quilt shows with quilt classes, fabric shops and a variety of vendors. They host a variety of award-winning quilts from across the country. The show features exhibits that include hand pieced and appliqued quilts, Kentucky heritage quilts, and Paducah contest quilts.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Heath_shooting">The Heath shooting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Heath shooting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Heath_High_School_shooting" class="mw-redirect" title="Heath High School shooting">Heath High School shooting</a></div> <p>On <a href="/wiki/December_1" title="December 1">December 1</a>, <a href="/wiki/1997" title="1997">1997</a>, 14-year-old Michael Carneal brought five loaded guns to Heath High School and shot a group of fellow students in the school's lobby as they were leaving a prayer group before school. Three students, all girls, were killed and five others were wounded; one of the wounded was left a <a href="/wiki/Paraplegic" class="mw-redirect" title="Paraplegic">paraplegic</a>. Carneal subsequently received a sentence of life with the possibility of parole after 25 years. In 2022, the Kentucky Parole Board denied his bid for parole.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a>, the city has a total area of 20.0 square miles (52 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 19.9 square miles (52 km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 0.10 square miles (0.26 km<sup>2</sup>), comprising 0.52%, is water.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paducah has a <a href="/wiki/Humid_subtropical_climate" title="Humid subtropical climate">humid subtropical climate</a> (<a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen</a>: <i>Cfa</i>) with four distinct seasons and is located in USDA <a href="/wiki/Hardiness_zone" title="Hardiness zone">hardiness zone</a> 7a.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spring-like conditions typically begin in mid-to-late March, summer from mid-to-late-May to late September, with fall in the October–November period. Seasonal extremes in both temperature and precipitation are common during early spring and late fall; <a href="/wiki/Severe_weather" title="Severe weather">severe weather</a> is also common, with occasional <a href="/wiki/Tornado" title="Tornado">tornado</a> outbreaks in the region. Winter typically brings a mix of rain, sleet, and snow, with occasional heavy snowfall and icing. The city has a normal January mean temperature of 34.6 °F (1.4 °C) and averages 13 days annually with temperatures staying at or below freezing; the first and last freezes of the season on average fall on October 25 and April 8, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-NOAA_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOAA-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Summer is typically hazy, hot, and humid with a July daily average of 78.9 °F (26.1 °C) and drought conditions at times. Paducah averages 48 days a year with high temperatures at or above 90 °F (32 °C). Snowfall averages 8.9 inches (23 cm) per season, contributing to the average annual precipitation of 50.32 inches (1,280 mm). Extremes in temperature range from 108 °F (42 °C) on July 17, 1942, and <a href="/wiki/Summer_2012_North_American_heat_wave" class="mw-redirect" title="Summer 2012 North American heat wave">June 29, 2012</a>, down to −15 °F (−26 °C) on <a href="/wiki/January_1985_Arctic_outbreak" class="mw-redirect" title="January 1985 Arctic outbreak">January 20, 1985</a>. Paducah is prone to river flooding from the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_River" title="Ohio River">Ohio River</a>, and as of late February 2018, the river had been expected to crest at 49 feet on February 28.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Paducah, Kentucky (<a href="/wiki/Barkley_Regional_Airport" title="Barkley Regional Airport">Barkley Regional Airport</a>), 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1937–present </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77<br />(25) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">78<br />(26) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">85<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF4100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">90<br />(32) </td> <td style="background: #FF2500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">96<br />(36) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">108<br />(42) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">108<br />(42) </td> <td style="background: #FF0300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">106<br />(41) </td> <td style="background: #FF0A00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">104<br />(40) </td> <td style="background: #FF2500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">96<br />(36) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86<br />(30) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77<br />(25) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">108<br />(42) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF9D3C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">65.4<br />(18.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF8914; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70.7<br />(21.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF6E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77.9<br />(25.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">84.0<br />(28.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF4100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89.6<br />(32.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF2C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">95.0<br />(35.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF2500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">96.9<br />(36.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF2700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">96.4<br />(35.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF3200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">93.4<br />(34.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF4D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86.5<br />(30.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF7500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76.0<br />(24.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF9831; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67.0<br />(19.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF1F00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">98.4<br />(36.9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFEDDB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44.7<br />(7.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFDAB5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49.7<br />(9.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFB368; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.7<br />(15.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8B17; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70.4<br />(21.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF6900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79.1<br />(26.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF4B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">87.1<br />(30.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF4000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89.9<br />(32.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF4200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89.5<br />(31.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF5A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">83.2<br />(28.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF850C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">71.8<br />(22.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFB872; color:#000000;" class="notheme">58.5<br />(14.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFBF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48.3<br />(9.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF8F1F; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">69.3<br />(20.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #F2F2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.0<br />(2.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">40.1<br />(4.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFDDBB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49.0<br />(9.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFB66E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.0<br />(15.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF9226; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.4<br />(20.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76.5<br />(24.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF6700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79.7<br />(26.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF6C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">78.2<br />(25.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF8811; color:#000000;" class="notheme">71.0<br />(21.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFB368; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.7<br />(15.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFE0C2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48.0<br />(8.9) </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">39.5<br />(4.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFB76F; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">58.8<br />(14.9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #D8D8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.3<br />(−2.6) </td> <td style="background: #E2E2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.5<br />(−0.8) </td> <td style="background: #F9F9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">38.3<br />(3.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFE2C5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47.6<br />(8.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFBB77; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.7<br />(14.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF9B38; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66.0<br />(18.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF8E1E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">69.4<br />(20.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF9932; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66.8<br />(19.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFB76F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">58.9<br />(14.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFE2C5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47.6<br />(8.7) </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.5<br />(3.1) </td> <td style="background: #E2E2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.7<br />(−0.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">48.2<br />(9.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #9E9EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.9<br />(−13.4) </td> <td style="background: #A9A9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.6<br />(−11.3) </td> <td style="background: #BFBFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.1<br />(−7.2) </td> <td style="background: #E2E2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.6<br />(−0.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFF9F3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41.6<br />(5.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC9A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">53.2<br />(11.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFB76F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">58.8<br />(14.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFC387; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55.7<br />(13.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFF3E8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43.0<br />(6.1) </td> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.4<br />(−0.9) </td> <td style="background: #C5C5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.0<br />(−6.1) </td> <td style="background: #ACACFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.7<br />(−10.7) </td> <td style="background: #9292FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">4.0<br />(−15.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #5A5AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">−15<br />(−26) </td> <td style="background: #5A5AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">−14<br />(−26) </td> <td style="background: #7575FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−6<br />(−21) </td> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21<br />(−6) </td> <td style="background: #E6E6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44<br />(7) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47<br />(8) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44<br />(7) </td> <td style="background: #ECECFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34<br />(1) </td> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22<br />(−6) </td> <td style="background: #8080FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3<br />(−19) </td> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−10<br />(−23) </td> <td style="background: #5A5AFF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−15<br />(−26) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> inches (mm) </th> <td style="background: #6CFF6C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.85<br />(98) </td> <td style="background: #5BFF5B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.94<br />(100) </td> <td style="background: #4FFF4F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.64<br />(118) </td> <td style="background: #35FF35; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.17<br />(131) </td> <td style="background: #46FF46; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.87<br />(124) </td> <td style="background: #4DFF4D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.51<br />(115) </td> <td style="background: #5CFF5C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.30<br />(109) </td> <td style="background: #89FF89; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.11<br />(79) </td> <td style="background: #74FF74; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.55<br />(90) </td> <td style="background: #68FF68; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.99<br />(101) </td> <td style="background: #5EFF5E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.09<br />(104) </td> <td style="background: #5CFF5C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.30<br />(109) </td> <td style="background: #5DFF5D; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">50.32<br />(1,278) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowfall inches (cm) </th> <td style="background: #9898FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.7<br />(6.9) </td> <td style="background: #8282FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.0<br />(7.6) </td> <td style="background: #D5D5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.1<br />(2.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(0.25) </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.2<br />(0.51) </td> <td style="background: #BABAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.8<br />(4.6) </td> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">8.9<br />(23) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average precipitation days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 0.01 in)</span> </th> <td style="background: #7E7EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.4 </td> <td style="background: #8181FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.3 </td> <td style="background: #7474FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.2 </td> <td style="background: #7171FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.1 </td> <td style="background: #7171FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.5 </td> <td style="background: #8787FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.4 </td> <td style="background: #9393FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.7 </td> <td style="background: #A1A1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.6 </td> <td style="background: #A7A7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.9 </td> <td style="background: #9C9CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.0 </td> <td style="background: #8585FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.5 </td> <td style="background: #8181FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.2 </td> <td style="background: #8787FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">113.8 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowy days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 0.1 in)</span> </th> <td style="background: #E2E2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.3 </td> <td style="background: #E2E2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.1 </td> <td style="background: #F3F3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.9 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1 </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.3 </td> <td style="background: #EEEEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.3 </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">7.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: NOAA<sup id="cite_ref-NOAA_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOAA-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NOAA_KYNG_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOAA_KYNG-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224496135">.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop{border-spacing:1px;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:0.3em;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop caption{background-color:lavender;color:black;padding-right:0.2em;padding-left:0.2em;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-bottom:none}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop th[scope=col]{border-bottom:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(2){text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td.us-census-pop-estimate{padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(3){padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(4){padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-footnote{border-top:1px solid black;font-size:85%;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-right{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-none{float:none;margin:0 1em 1em 0}}</style> <table class="us-census-pop us-census-pop-right"> <caption>Historical population</caption> <tbody><tr><th scope="col">Census</th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th scope="col"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Note</span></th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr> <tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1830_United_States_census" title="1830 United States census">1830</a></th><td>105</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1850_United_States_census" title="1850 United States census">1850</a></th><td>2,428</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1860_United_States_census" title="1860 United States census">1860</a></th><td>4,590</td><td></td><td>89.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_census" title="1870 United States census">1870</a></th><td>6,866</td><td></td><td>49.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1880_United_States_census" title="1880 United States census">1880</a></th><td>8,036</td><td></td><td>17.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1890_United_States_census" title="1890 United States census">1890</a></th><td>12,797</td><td></td><td>59.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_census" title="1900 United States census">1900</a></th><td>19,446</td><td></td><td>52.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1910_United_States_census" title="1910 United States census">1910</a></th><td>22,760</td><td></td><td>17.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_census" title="1920 United States census">1920</a></th><td>24,735</td><td></td><td>8.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1930_United_States_census" title="1930 United States census">1930</a></th><td>33,541</td><td></td><td>35.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_census" title="1940 United States census">1940</a></th><td>33,765</td><td></td><td>0.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_census" title="1950 United States census">1950</a></th><td>32,828</td><td></td><td>−2.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census">1960</a></th><td>34,479</td><td></td><td>5.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>31,627</td><td></td><td>−8.3%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>29,315</td><td></td><td>−7.3%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>27,256</td><td></td><td>−7.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>26,307</td><td></td><td>−3.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>25,024</td><td></td><td>−4.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>27,137</td><td></td><td>8.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">2023 (est.)</th><td class="us-census-pop-estimate">27,205</td><td><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td>0.3%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="us-census-pop-footnote">U.S. Decennial Census<sup id="cite_ref-DecennialCensus_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DecennialCensus-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020_census">2020 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 2020 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Paducah Racial Composition<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Race </th> <th>Num. </th> <th>Perc. </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a> </td> <td>18,130 </td> <td>66.81% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">Black or African American</a> </td> <td>5,968 </td> <td>21.99% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a> </td> <td>87 </td> <td>0.32% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a> </td> <td>273 </td> <td>1.01% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a> </td> <td>11 </td> <td>0.04% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Other/Mixed</a> </td> <td>1,621 </td> <td>5.97% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> </td> <td>1,047 </td> <td>3.86% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020 United States Census</a>, there were 27,137 people, 11,330 households, and 5,561 families residing in the city. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_census">2010 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 2010 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the census<sup id="cite_ref-GR8_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR8-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 2010, there were 25,024 people, 11,462 households, and 6,071 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,251.0 inhabitants per square mile (483.0/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 12,851 housing units at an average density of 642.5 per square mile (248.1/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the city was 70.99% <a href="/wiki/White_American" class="mw-redirect" title="White American">White</a>, 23.67% African American, 0.22% Native American, 1.02% <a href="/wiki/Asian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian American">Asian</a>, 0.02% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islands_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islands American">Pacific Islander</a>, 1.07% from <a href="/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census#Race" class="mw-redirect" title="Race and ethnicity in the United States Census">other races</a>, and 3.01% from two or more races. <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanics or Latinos</a> of any race were 2.68% of the population. </p><p>There were 11,462 households, out of which 26.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 32.5% were married couples living together, 16.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 47.0% were non-families. 41.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.09 and the average family size was 2.84. </p><p>In the city, the population was spread out, with 21.8% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 24.4% from 25 to 44, 27.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.2% who were 65 or older. The median age was 41.4 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.2 males. </p><p>The median income for a household in the city was $31,220, and the median income for a family was $42,645. Males had a median income of $36,778 versus $27,597 for females. The per capita income for the city was $20,430. About 18.1% of families and 22.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 34.3% of those under age 18 and 12.8% of those age 65 or over. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000_census">2000 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 2000 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the census<sup id="cite_ref-GR2_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR2-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 2000, there were 26,307 people, 11,825 households, and 6,645 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,350.2 inhabitants per square mile (521.3/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 13,221 housing units at an average density of 678.6 per square mile (262.0/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the city was 72.78% White, 24.15% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.64% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 0.55% from other races, and 1.56% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.38% of the population. </p><p>There were 11,825 households, out of which 25.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.8% were married couples living together, 16.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 43.8% were non-families. 39.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.12 and the average family size was 2.84. </p><p>In the city the population was spread out, with 22.5% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 26.2% from 25 to 44, 22.5% from 45 to 64, and 20.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 83.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 77.9 males. </p><p>The median income for a household in the city was $26,137, and the median income for a family was $34,092. Males had a median income of $32,783 versus $21,901 for females. The per capita income for the city was $18,417. About 18.0% of families and 22.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 33.8% of those under age 18 and 16.8% of those age 65 or over. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paducah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Paducah.jpg/220px-Paducah.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Paducah.jpg/330px-Paducah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Paducah.jpg/440px-Paducah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="375" /></a><figcaption>Downtown Paducah</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Dippin%27_Dots" title="Dippin' Dots">Dippin' Dots</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Paducah_%26_Louisville_Railway" title="Paducah & Louisville Railway">Paducah & Louisville Railway</a> and several barge companies have their headquarters in Paducah.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The river continues to be a prominent source of industry for Paducah. Twenty-three barge companies have their operating or corporate headquarters in Paducah. In 2017, the city of Paducah opened a 340-foot transient boat dock that provides space for transient boaters to tie up for a few hours or several nights, increasing tourism in the city. Amenities include fuel (diesel and marine grade gasoline), water, power pedestals, and a sewer pumpout station (seasonal for water and sewer amenities). </p><p>A federal <a href="/wiki/National_Weather_Service" title="National Weather Service">National Weather Service</a> Forecast Office is based in Paducah, providing weather information to western Kentucky, western Tennessee, southeastern <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>, southern <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, and southwestern <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Delta_Queen_Paducah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Delta_Queen_Paducah.jpg/220px-Delta_Queen_Paducah.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Delta_Queen_Paducah.jpg/330px-Delta_Queen_Paducah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Delta_Queen_Paducah.jpg/440px-Delta_Queen_Paducah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a><figcaption>The Delta Queen in Paducah</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Top_employers">Top employers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Top employers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to Paducah's <i>2023 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,</i> the top employers in the city were entities in healthcare and education services: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th># </th> <th>Employer </th> <th># of Employees </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td>Bon Secours Mercy Health, Inc. </td> <td>1,445 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td>Baptist Healthcare Systems </td> <td>1,432 </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td>Wal-Mart Associates, Inc. </td> <td>969 </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td>Paducah Board of Education </td> <td>623 </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td>Baptist Health Medical Group </td> <td>410 </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 </td> <td>City of Paducah </td> <td>339 </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td>West Kentucky Community & Technical College </td> <td>376 </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 </td> <td>ViWinTech Window & Door </td> <td>370 </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 </td> <td>Lowes of Paducah #465 </td> <td>329 </td></tr> <tr> <td>10 </td> <td>GMRI </td> <td>319 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several employers in McCracken County call Paducah home, although their facilities are located outside the city limits. Paducah and McCracken County jointly operate Greater Paducah Economic Development ("GPED"). GPED lists<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the top employers in McCracken County, several of which include employers within the City of Paducah limits, and is more reflective of the true top employer situation as perceived by citizens of Paducah, as: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th># </th> <th>Employer </th> <th>Product/service </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td>Baptist Health Paducah </td> <td>Healthcare </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td>Mercy Health-Lourdes </td> <td>Healthcare </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td>Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership </td> <td>Clean-up contractor-gaseous diffusion plant </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td>James Marine </td> <td>Inland marine/barge manufacturing </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td>McCracken County Public Schools </td> <td>K–12 education </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 </td> <td>Marquette Transportation </td> <td>Marine transportation/HQ </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td>Walmart </td> <td>Retail </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 </td> <td>Beltline Electric </td> <td>Electrical Contractor </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 </td> <td>City of Paducah </td> <td>Government </td></tr> <tr> <td>10 </td> <td>Computer Services, Inc. </td> <td>Bank Processing </td></tr> <tr> <td>11 </td> <td>Credit Bureau Systems </td> <td>Credit reporting </td></tr> <tr> <td>12 </td> <td>Independence Bank </td> <td>Banking </td></tr> <tr> <td>13 </td> <td>Ingram Barge </td> <td>Inland marine </td></tr> <tr> <td>14 </td> <td>Lowes </td> <td>Retail </td></tr> <tr> <td>15 </td> <td>Lynx Services </td> <td>Call center </td></tr> <tr> <td>16 </td> <td>Paducah Public Schools </td> <td>K-12 education </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arts_and_culture">Arts and culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Arts and culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Art">Art</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Murals">Murals</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Murals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paducah_Flood_Wall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Paducah_Flood_Wall.jpg/220px-Paducah_Flood_Wall.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Paducah_Flood_Wall.jpg/330px-Paducah_Flood_Wall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Paducah_Flood_Wall.jpg/440px-Paducah_Flood_Wall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>Paducah Flood Wall</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1996, the Paducah Wall to Wall <a href="/wiki/Mural" title="Mural">mural</a> program was begun by the <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> mural artist <a href="/wiki/Robert_Dafford" title="Robert Dafford">Robert Dafford</a> and his team on the floodwall in downtown Paducah.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They have painted more than 50 murals addressing numerous subjects, including <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American history</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-SIXPANELS_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SIXPANELS-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> industries such as river <a href="/wiki/Barge" title="Barge">barges</a><sup id="cite_ref-SIXPANELS_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SIXPANELS-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and hospitals,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> local African-American heritage,<sup id="cite_ref-WALLTOWALL_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WALLTOWALL-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the historic <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnegie Library">Carnegie Library</a> on Broadway Street,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Paddle_steamer" title="Paddle steamer">steamboats</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-WALLTOWALL_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WALLTOWALL-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and local labor unions.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2003, photographer Jim Roshan documented the painting of the <a href="/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition" title="Lewis and Clark Expedition">Lewis and Clark Expedition</a> mural during the <a href="/wiki/America_24/7" title="America 24/7">America 24/7</a> project. One of the images was used in the book <i>Kentucky24/7</i>, published in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 2008 the mural project was completed and being maintained. Muralist <a href="/wiki/Herb_Roe" title="Herb Roe">Herb Roe</a> returned to the city each year to repaint and refurbish the panels.<sup id="cite_ref-SMALLTOWN_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SMALLTOWN-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roe is the only muralist associated with the project to have worked on all of the panels.<sup id="cite_ref-KYLIVING_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KYLIVING-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roe added a new mural to the project in the summer of 2010. It shows the 100-year history of the local <a href="/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America" title="Boy Scouts of America">Boy Scout</a> troop, Troop 1.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Troop 1 is one of only a handful of troops who share their centennial with that of the national scouting organization itself. The dedication for the mural was held on National Scout Sunday, February 6, 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2017, artist Char Downs debuted the newest addition to the Wall to Wall mural program: a series of murals of award-winning quilts on the floodwall facing Park Street. Downs invested nearly 500 hours recreating Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry's historic award-winning quilt Corona II: Solar Eclipse—the first quilt in the series—in her studio in Paducah's Lower Town Arts District. </p><p>The Paducah Art Alliance has a program of Artist in Residencies to bring respected artists in to the city. In 2018 British Artist <a href="/wiki/Denimu" class="mw-redirect" title="Denimu">Ian Berry</a> came and put on an exhibition to great acclaim. Ian is famed around the world with his art in denim, and fitted in with the textile art that Paducah is known for.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Lower_Town_Artist_Relocation_Program">Lower Town Artist Relocation Program</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Lower Town Artist Relocation Program"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In August 2000, Paducah's Artist Relocation Program was started to offer incentives for artists to relocate to its historic downtown and Lower Town areas. The program has become a national model for using the arts for <a href="/wiki/Economic_development" title="Economic development">economic development</a>. It has received the Governors Award in the Arts, the Distinguished Planning Award from the Kentucky Chapter of the <a href="/wiki/American_Planning_Association" title="American Planning Association">American Planning Association</a>, the <a href="/wiki/American_Planning_Association" title="American Planning Association">American Planning Association</a>'s National Planning Award, and most recently, the Kentucky League of Cities' Enterprise Cities Award. </p><p>Lower Town, home of the Artist Relocation Program, is the oldest neighborhood in Paducah. As retail commerce moved toward the outskirts of the city, efforts were made to preserve the architectural character, and historic <a href="/wiki/Victorian_architecture" title="Victorian architecture">Victorian</a> structures were restored in the older parts of the city. The artists' housing program contributed to that effort and became a catalyst for revitalizing the downtown area. The Luther F. Carson Center for the Performing Arts was completed in downtown Paducah in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-LFCC_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LFCC-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="UNESCO_Creative_City">UNESCO Creative City</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: UNESCO Creative City"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On November 21, 2013, Paducah was designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (<a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a>) as a Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art.<sup id="cite_ref-NPR_2022-04-29_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR_2022-04-29-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arts and cultural initiatives have included the Lower Town Artist Relocation program, the National Quilt Museum, Paducah "Wall to Wall" floodwall murals, and the Paducah School of Art and Design. Participation in the program has been criticized by local business owners and by Paducah's economic development council due to the financial cost to the city, and because the "UNESCO Creative Cities Network only benefits a small portion of Paducah's economy".<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Luther F. Carson Center for the Performing Arts was completed in downtown Paducah in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-LFCC_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LFCC-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From Crosby, Stills & Nash to Garrison Keillor, Shanghai Circus to STOMP, the Carson Center hosts touring Broadway productions, well-known entertainers, dramas, dance and popular faith-based and family series. </p><p>In September 2004, plans came together to highlight Paducah's <a href="/wiki/Roots_revival" title="Roots revival">musical roots</a> through the redevelopment of the southern side of downtown. The centerpiece of the effort is the renovation of Maggie Steed's Hotel Metropolitan.<a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#cite_note-31">[28]</a> Prominent African-American musicians such as <a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cab_Calloway" title="Cab Calloway">Cab Calloway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chick_Webb" title="Chick Webb">Chick Webb</a>'s orchestra, <a href="/wiki/B.B._King" class="mw-redirect" title="B.B. King">B.B. King</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bobby_%22Blue%22_Bland" class="mw-redirect" title="Bobby "Blue" Bland">Bobby "Blue" Bland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ike_and_Tina_Turner" class="mw-redirect" title="Ike and Tina Turner">Ike and Tina Turner</a> and other <a href="/wiki/R_%26_B" class="mw-redirect" title="R & B">R & B</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> legends have performed here as part of what has become known as the "<a href="/wiki/Chitlin%27_Circuit" title="Chitlin' Circuit">Chitlin' Circuit</a>". Supporters want to promote Paducah's role in the history of American music. </p><p>Paducah is the birthplace and residence of musicians in various genres. <a href="/wiki/Rockabilly_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rockabilly Hall of Fame">Rockabilly Hall of Fame</a> artists Ray Smith, whose recording of "Rockin' Little Angel" was a hit in 1960, and Stanley Walker, who played guitar for Ray Smith and others, grew up in Paducah. <a href="/wiki/Terry_Mike_Jeffrey" title="Terry Mike Jeffrey">Terry Mike Jeffrey</a>, an Emmy-nominated songwriter, is a resident of Paducah. Nashville, Tennessee–based composer–violinist, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Evitts" title="Mark Evitts">Mark Evitts</a>, is also from Paducah. The most prominent mainstream artist is <a href="/wiki/Steven_Curtis_Chapman" title="Steven Curtis Chapman">Steven Curtis Chapman</a>, the top-selling <a href="/wiki/Contemporary_Christian_music" title="Contemporary Christian music">Christian</a> artist of all time. </p><p>Paducah is one of only two cities named in the world-famous song "Hooray for Hollywood", which is used as the opening number for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards (the Oscars). The 1937 song, with music by <a href="/wiki/Richard_A._Whiting" title="Richard A. Whiting">Richard Whiting</a> and lyrics by <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Mercer" title="Johnny Mercer">Johnny Mercer</a>, contains in the second verse: "Hooray for Hollywood! That phony, super Coney, Hollywood. They come from Chilicothes and Padukahs..." </p><p>Both cities were misspelled in the original published lyrics, though that may have been the fault of the publishers rather than Mercer. He was noted for his sophistication and the attention to detail he put into his lyrics. The correct spellings are "Chillicothe" and "Paducah". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paducah was home to professional baseball's minor league Class D <a href="/wiki/Kentucky%E2%80%93Illinois%E2%80%93Tennessee_League" title="Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League">Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League</a> (or KITTY League) Paducah Paddys (1903), Paducah Indians (1904–06, 1910, 1914, 1922–23, 1936–41), Paducah Polecats (1911), <a href="/wiki/Paducah_Chiefs" title="Paducah Chiefs">Paducah Chiefs</a> (1912–13, 1951–55), and Paducah Redbirds (1935). The Chiefs competed in the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi-Ohio_Valley_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Mississippi-Ohio Valley League">Mississippi-Ohio Valley League</a> from 1949 to 1950.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The Chiefs played in <a href="/wiki/J._Polk_Brooks_Stadium" title="J. Polk Brooks Stadium">J. Polk Brooks Stadium</a> from its opening in 1948 until the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky%E2%80%93Illinois%E2%80%93Tennessee_League" title="Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League">KITTY League</a> folded after the 1955 season. Since then, the ballpark has served as the home venue for <a href="/wiki/Paducah_Tilghman_High_School" title="Paducah Tilghman High School">Paducah Tilghman High School</a> and American Legion Post 31 baseball teams, as well as various special baseball games and tournaments. In recent years, Brooks Stadium hosted the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_Valley_Conference" title="Ohio Valley Conference">Ohio Valley Conference</a> baseball tournament (2001–2009) and the <a href="/wiki/National_Club_Baseball_Association" title="National Club Baseball Association">National Club Baseball Association</a> World Series (2015 and 2016).<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Brooks Stadium currently is the home field for the Paducah Chiefs of the Ohio Valley Summer Collegiate Baseball League.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1969, the <a href="/wiki/Paducah_Community_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Paducah Community College">Paducah Community College</a> Indians won the <a href="/wiki/NJCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NJCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship">National Junior College men's basketball championship</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Paducah_International_Raceway" title="Paducah International Raceway">Paducah International Raceway</a> is a 3/8-mile motorsport racetrack built in 1972. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government">Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:McCracken_County_Courthouse_KY.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/McCracken_County_Courthouse_KY.JPG/220px-McCracken_County_Courthouse_KY.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/McCracken_County_Courthouse_KY.JPG/330px-McCracken_County_Courthouse_KY.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/McCracken_County_Courthouse_KY.JPG/440px-McCracken_County_Courthouse_KY.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>McCracken County Courthouse</figcaption></figure> <p>Paducah operates under a <a href="/wiki/Council%E2%80%93manager_government" title="Council–manager government">council–manager</a> form of city government. The Paducah Board of Commissioners is made up of the mayor and four commissioners elected <a href="/wiki/At-large" title="At-large">at-large</a> by the citizens on a non-partisan basis. The mayor is elected for a four-year term and commissioners each for a two-year term. The mayor and council select and appoint a <a href="/wiki/City_manager" title="City manager">city manager</a> to operate the city. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Paducah_Public_Schools" title="Paducah Public Schools">Paducah Public Schools</a> operates public schools serving most of the City of Paducah. Three K-5 elementary schools, Clark Elementary School, McNabb Elementary School and Morgan Elementary School, serve the city. All district residents are zoned to Paducah Middle School and <a href="/wiki/Paducah_Tilghman_High_School" title="Paducah Tilghman High School">Paducah Tilghman High School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Parts of the city and surrounding county are instead served by the <a href="/wiki/McCracken_County_Public_Schools" title="McCracken County Public Schools">McCracken County Public Schools</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Concord Elementary School and Reidland Elementary/Intermediate serve students through the 5th grade; Lone Oak Elementary School and Hendron–Lone Oak Elementary School end at the third grade, with 4th and 5th grade students in those schools' attendance zones attending Lone Oak Intermediate School. Middle school students in those areas may be zoned into Heath, Lone Oak, or Reidland Middle School. The county district began operating a single, consolidated <a href="/wiki/McCracken_County_High_School" title="McCracken County High School">McCracken County High School</a> on August 9, 2013. The Paducah city district did not participate in this consolidation and Paducah Tilghman High School remains separate. </p><p>Paducah is also home to two private school systems, <a href="/wiki/St._Mary_High_School_(Paducah,_Kentucky)" title="St. Mary High School (Paducah, Kentucky)">St. Mary High School</a> and Community Christian Academy. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Higher_education">Higher education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Higher education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/West_Kentucky_Community_and_Technical_College" title="West Kentucky Community and Technical College">West Kentucky Community and Technical College</a> (WKCTC) is a member of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and is a public, two-year, degree-granting institution serving the Western Region of Kentucky. There are approximately 6,200 students enrolled at the college.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> WKCTC was rated as one of the top 10 community colleges in the United States by the <a href="/wiki/Aspen_Institute" title="Aspen Institute">Aspen Institute</a> for 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is a Paducah campus of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Kentucky_College_of_Engineering" title="University of Kentucky College of Engineering">University of Kentucky College of Engineering</a> located on the WKCTC campus. </p><p>There is also a Paducah campus of <a href="/wiki/Murray_State_University" title="Murray State University">Murray State University</a>, which offers approximately 20 bachelor's and master's degree programs. It has a 43,000-square-foot (4,000 m<sup>2</sup>) facility located on a 23-acre (9.3 ha) campus adjacent to WKCTC that was opened in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_library">Public library</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Public library"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paducah has a <a href="/wiki/Public_library" title="Public library">lending library</a>, the McCracken County Public Library.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Broadcast">Broadcast</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Broadcast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paducah is one of three control cities of the Paducah-<a href="/wiki/Cape_Girardeau,_Missouri" title="Cape Girardeau, Missouri">Cape Girardeau</a>-<a href="/wiki/Harrisburg,_Illinois" title="Harrisburg, Illinois">Harrisburg</a> <a href="/wiki/Media_market" title="Media market">media market</a>, and is served by all the major network affiliates in the market. Locally, television stations in Paducah include <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> affiliate <a href="/wiki/WPSD-TV" title="WPSD-TV">WPSD-TV</a>, <a href="/wiki/MyNetworkTV" title="MyNetworkTV">MyNetworkTV</a> affiliate <a href="/wiki/WDKA" title="WDKA">WDKA</a> (a sister station to Cape Girardeau-based <a href="/wiki/Fox_Broadcasting_Company" title="Fox Broadcasting Company">Fox</a> affiliate <a href="/wiki/KBSI_(TV)" class="mw-redirect" title="KBSI (TV)">KBSI</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Educational_Television" title="Kentucky Educational Television">Kentucky Educational Television</a> satellite station <a href="/wiki/WKPD" title="WKPD">WKPD</a>. Paducah was also previously home to <a href="/wiki/WQWQ-LD" title="WQWQ-LD">WQWQ-LD</a>, which served as the area's affiliate of <a href="/wiki/The_CW" title="The CW">The CW</a>. That station now operates from Cape Girardeau as the market's <a href="/wiki/Telemundo" title="Telemundo">Telemundo</a> affiliate, but still nominally licensed in Paducah. </p><p>Six radio stations are located in Paducah; half of the stations are owned by <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Broadcasting_Company" title="Bristol Broadcasting Company">Bristol Broadcasting Company</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Print">Print</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Print"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The main print outlet is the regional daily newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/The_Paducah_Sun" title="The Paducah Sun">The Paducah Sun</a></i>, owned by <a href="/wiki/Paxton_Media_Group" title="Paxton Media Group">Paxton Media Group</a>, which owns WPSD. The weekly newspapers, the <i>West Kentucky News</i> and <i>The Good Neighbor</i>, enjoy significant readership. </p><p>The bi-monthly magazine <i>Paducah Life</i><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> debuted in 1994 and continues publication today. The magazine features articles about life and residents in and around Paducah. <i>Purchase Area Family Magazine</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a monthly publication distributed throughout Western Kentucky and Metropolis, Illinois, debuted in 2003. The magazine features a comprehensive calendar of events for the Purchase Area as well as unique articles about events, organizations and activities for families in the region. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Infrastructure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transportation">Transportation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Port_Authority">Port Authority</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Port Authority"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Paducah-McCracken_County_Riverport" class="mw-redirect" title="Paducah-McCracken County Riverport">Paducah-McCracken County Riverport</a> Authority was established in 1964 by the legislative bodies of the County of McCracken and the City of Paducah under an equal ownership agreement. The Riverport Authority is a quasi-government agency that provides essential maritime services for the rural regions of Western Kentucky, Southern Illinois, Southeast Missouri, and Northwestern Tennessee. The agency specializes in bulk, agricultural, general, and containerized cargoes, and operates <a href="/wiki/Foreign-trade_zones_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign-trade zones of the United States">Foreign Trade Zone</a> No. 294. It is the only <a href="/wiki/United_States_Maritime_Administration" title="United States Maritime Administration">United States Maritime Administration</a> Marine Highway Designation on the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_River" title="Ohio River">Ohio River</a> and the only Marine Highway port on the river that is designated for <a href="/wiki/Container_on_barge" title="Container on barge">container on barge</a> service. The authority owns the largest flat-top crane in North America.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Air_service">Air service</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Air service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paducah_Airport_-_NARA_-_280811_-_Restored.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Paducah_Airport_-_NARA_-_280811_-_Restored.jpg/220px-Paducah_Airport_-_NARA_-_280811_-_Restored.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Paducah_Airport_-_NARA_-_280811_-_Restored.jpg/330px-Paducah_Airport_-_NARA_-_280811_-_Restored.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Paducah_Airport_-_NARA_-_280811_-_Restored.jpg/440px-Paducah_Airport_-_NARA_-_280811_-_Restored.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2538" data-file-height="1435" /></a><figcaption>Paducah Airport, 1938</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pictograms-nps-airport.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Pictograms-nps-airport.svg/28px-Pictograms-nps-airport.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Pictograms-nps-airport.svg/42px-Pictograms-nps-airport.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Pictograms-nps-airport.svg/56px-Pictograms-nps-airport.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="120" data-file-height="120" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Barkley_Regional_Airport" title="Barkley Regional Airport">Barkley Regional Airport</a> (PAH) serves the area offering regional jet service to Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT). CLT is ranked among the world's top 10 busiest airports, offering nonstop service to 178 destinations, including 36 international. Barkley Regional Airport is served by one airline, <a href="/wiki/Contour_Airlines" title="Contour Airlines">Contour Airlines</a>. Barkley Regional Airport is concluding a multi-million dollar construction/relocation of its terminal.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Transit">Transit</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Transit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Paducah Area Transit System (PATS) provides fixed-route transit and paratransit service in and around the city.. Fixed-route services operate from Monday through Saturday from 7 AM to 7 PM on four routes.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Roadways">Roadways</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Roadways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-24.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/I-24.svg/28px-I-24.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/I-24.svg/42px-I-24.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/I-24.svg/56px-I-24.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_24" title="Interstate 24">Interstate 24</a> is a four-lane freeway that routes west to St. Louis and east to Nashville. The highway has a business loop that runs through downtown Paducah.</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-69_(Future).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/I-69_%28Future%29.svg/28px-I-69_%28Future%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/I-69_%28Future%29.svg/42px-I-69_%28Future%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/I-69_%28Future%29.svg/56px-I-69_%28Future%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_69_in_Kentucky" title="Interstate 69 in Kentucky">Interstate 69</a> is planned to follow the route of the existing <a href="/wiki/Purchase_Parkway" title="Purchase Parkway">Purchase Parkway</a> to the south and east of Paducah. When completed, it would connect north to Indianapolis and south to Memphis.</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_60.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/US_60.svg/28px-US_60.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/US_60.svg/42px-US_60.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/US_60.svg/56px-US_60.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_60_in_Kentucky" title="U.S. Route 60 in Kentucky">US 60</a> is a major east–west highway that runs through the Paducah business district.</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_45.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/US_45.svg/28px-US_45.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/US_45.svg/42px-US_45.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/US_45.svg/56px-US_45.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_45_in_Kentucky" title="U.S. Route 45 in Kentucky">US 45</a> enters the city from the north via the <a href="/wiki/Irvin_S._Cobb_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Irvin S. Cobb Bridge">Irvin S. Cobb Bridge</a> from Brookport, Illinois, and runs south down to Mayfield.</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_62.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/US_62.svg/28px-US_62.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/US_62.svg/42px-US_62.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/US_62.svg/56px-US_62.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_62_in_Kentucky" title="U.S. Route 62 in Kentucky">US 62</a> connects to <a href="/wiki/Cairo,_Illinois" title="Cairo, Illinois">Cairo, Illinois</a>, to the west and <a href="/wiki/Calvert_City,_Kentucky" title="Calvert City, Kentucky">Calvert City</a> to the east.</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_68.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/US_68.svg/28px-US_68.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/US_68.svg/42px-US_68.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/US_68.svg/56px-US_68.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_68" title="U.S. Route 68">US 68</a> connects the <a href="/wiki/Land_Between_the_Lakes_National_Recreation_Area" title="Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area">Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hopkinsville,_Kentucky" title="Hopkinsville, Kentucky">Hopkinsville</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bowling_Green,_Kentucky" title="Bowling Green, Kentucky">Bowling Green</a> to the east-southeast.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Adams_(Kentucky_politician)" title="Michael Adams (Kentucky politician)">Michael Adams</a>, Kentucky Secretary of State</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_%22Speedy%22_Atkins" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles "Speedy" Atkins">Charles "Speedy" Atkins</a>, an African-American pauper whose body was mummified and occasionally put on display at funeral home until finally being buried 66 years later in 1994</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alben_W._Barkley" title="Alben W. Barkley">Alben W. Barkley</a>, 35th Vice President of the United States (during the presidency of <a href="/wiki/Harry_Truman" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Truman">Harry Truman</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Wolfe_Bernheim" title="Isaac Wolfe Bernheim">Isaac Wolfe Bernheim</a>, distiller and philanthropist, founder of I. W. Harper brand of bourbon whiskey and <a href="/wiki/Bernheim_Arboretum_and_Research_Forest" title="Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest">Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sara_Bradley_(chef)" title="Sara Bradley (chef)">Sara Bradley</a>, chef<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Bradley-Cox" title="Susan Bradley-Cox">Susan Bradley-Cox</a>, USA Triathlete, named USA Triathlon Grand Masters Athlete of the Year in 1997 and 1998 and was selected as Masters Triathlete of the Year by Triathlete magazine in 1997</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Burch" title="Fred Burch">Fred Burch</a>, professional songwriter, <a href="/wiki/PT-109_(song)" title="PT-109 (song)">P.T. 109</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tragedy_(Thomas_Wayne_song)" title="Tragedy (Thomas Wayne song)">Tragedy</a>, and many others</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_O._Burch" title="William O. Burch">William O. Burch</a>, a decorated naval aviator and triple Navy Cross recipient during who reached the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_Carroll" title="Julian Carroll">Julian Carroll</a>, former Governor of Kentucky, member of Kentucky House of Representatives and Kentucky Senate</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Champion" title="Sam Champion">Sam Champion</a>, television weatherman and managing editor of <a href="/wiki/The_Weather_Channel" title="The Weather Channel">The Weather Channel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Curtis_Chapman" title="Steven Curtis Chapman">Steven Curtis Chapman</a>, Christian music singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, author, and social activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_C._Clifton" title="Joseph C. Clifton">Joseph "'Jumpin' Joe" Clifton</a>, Navy officer who served in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> and rose to rank of Rear Admiral</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irvin_S._Cobb" title="Irvin S. Cobb">Irvin S. Cobb</a>, author, screenwriter and humorist, anti-Prohibition campaigner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russ_Cochran" title="Russ Cochran">Russ Cochran</a>, professional golfer on <a href="/wiki/Champions_Tour" class="mw-redirect" title="Champions Tour">Champions Tour</a>, previously on <a href="/wiki/PGA_Tour" title="PGA Tour">PGA Tour</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nationwide_Tour" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationwide Tour">Nationwide Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Crutchfield" title="Jan Crutchfield">Jan Crutchfield</a>, country music singer and songwriter.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Crutchfield" title="Jerry Crutchfield">Jerry Crutchfield</a>, country and pop music producer and songwriter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vic_Dana" title="Vic Dana">Vic Dana</a>, Billboard Top 100 hit recording artist and professional dancer. Popular hits include "Red Roses for a Blue Lady", "Little Altar Boy", "I Will", "More", "Shangri-La", "I Love You Drops", and "If I Never Knew Your Name".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_DuMaine" title="Pierre DuMaine">Pierre DuMaine</a>, Roman Catholic bishop</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_E._Ellis" title="Edwin E. Ellis">Edwin E. Ellis</a>, U.S. Navy photographer who visually documented <a href="/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a>, inventor, businessman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Evitts" title="Mark Evitts">Mark Evitts</a>, composer, string-arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_Mourning_Farris_McKinney" class="mw-redirect" title="May Mourning Farris McKinney">May Mourning Farris McKinney</a>, President General of the <a href="/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy" title="United Daughters of the Confederacy">United Daughters of the Confederacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Finley" title="Steve Finley">Steve Finley</a>, former baseball player, two-time All-Star, World Series champion, and five-time <a href="/wiki/Gold_Glove_Award" title="Gold Glove Award">Gold Glove Award</a> winner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josh_Forrest" title="Josh Forrest">Josh Forrest</a>, former linebacker for the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Rams" title="Los Angeles Rams">Los Angeles Rams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_Gaines" title="Clarence Gaines">Clarence "Big House" Gaines</a>, Hall of Fame basketball coach, with a 47-year coaching career at <a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem_State_University" title="Winston-Salem State University">Winston-Salem State University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina" title="Winston-Salem, North Carolina">Winston-Salem, North Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._D._Grey" title="J. D. Grey">J. D. Grey</a>, Southern Baptist clergyman influential in Southern Baptist Convention</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_H._Grubbs" title="Robert H. Grubbs">Robert H. Grubbs</a>, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for work on the organic reaction <a href="/wiki/Olefin_Metathesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Olefin Metathesis">Olefin Metathesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Haas" title="Eddie Haas">Eddie Haas</a>, Major League Baseball outfielder, coach, manager and scout</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molly_Harper" title="Molly Harper">Molly Harper</a>, author of multiple contemporary and paranormal romance novels, including the Nice Girls vampire series and the Southern Eclectic series</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Jaeger" title="Tim Jaeger">Tim Jaeger</a>, artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Karnes" title="Robert Karnes">Robert Karnes</a>, actor, starred in television series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lawless_Years" title="The Lawless Years">The Lawless Years</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callie_Khouri" title="Callie Khouri">Callie Khouri</a>, screenwriter, producer and director, won an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> for Best Screenplay for <i><a href="/wiki/Thelma_and_Louise" class="mw-redirect" title="Thelma and Louise">Thelma and Louise</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brent_Leggs" title="Brent Leggs">Brent Leggs</a>, African American historical preservationist, founding director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund (part of the <a href="/wiki/National_Trust_for_Historic_Preservation" title="National Trust for Historic Preservation">National Trust for Historic Preservation</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelley_Lovelace" title="Kelley Lovelace">Kelley Lovelace</a>, country music songwriter known primarily for his work with country music artist <a href="/wiki/Brad_Paisley" title="Brad Paisley">Brad Paisley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fate_Marable" title="Fate Marable">Fate Marable</a>, jazz pianist, bandleader, and player of a steam calliope</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_L._McWaters" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeffrey L. McWaters">Jeffrey L. McWaters</a>, CEO/founder of Amerigroup Corp., Virginia state senator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matty_Matlock" title="Matty Matlock">Matty Matlock</a>, Dixieland clarinetist, saxophonist, and arranger, replaced <a href="/wiki/Benny_Goodman" title="Benny Goodman">Benny Goodman</a> in the Ben Pollack band doing arrangements and performing on clarinet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenny_Perry" title="Kenny Perry">Kenny Perry</a>, golfer on PGA Tour and Champions Tour</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boots_Randolph" title="Boots Randolph">Boots Randolph</a>, saxophonist who was a major part of the "Nashville Sound" for most of his professional career, best known for his hit "Yakety Sax", which became <a href="/wiki/Benny_Hill" title="Benny Hill">Benny Hill</a>'s signature tune</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ricochet_(wrestler)" title="Ricochet (wrestler)">Trevor "Ricochet" Mann</a>, professional wrestler in <a href="/wiki/AEW" class="mw-redirect" title="AEW">AEW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Day_Rollston" title="Adelaide Day Rollston">Adelaide Day Rollston</a>, poet and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Roof" title="Gene Roof">Gene Roof</a>, former Major League Baseball outfielder and coach</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Roof" title="Phil Roof">Phil Roof</a>, former Major League Baseball catcher for <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Royals" title="Kansas City Royals">Kansas City</a>/<a href="/wiki/Oakland_Athletics" title="Oakland Athletics">Oakland Athletics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Twins" title="Minnesota Twins">Minnesota Twins</a>, bullpen coach for several MLB teams, and minor league team manager</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Maton" title="Phil Maton">Phil Maton</a>, Major League Baseball pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Padres" title="San Diego Padres">San Diego Padres</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Rays" title="Tampa Bay Rays">Tampa Bay Rays</a>, <a href="/wiki/Houston_Astros" title="Houston Astros">Houston Astros</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Guardians" title="Cleveland Guardians">Cleveland Guardians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeri_Ryan" title="Jeri Ryan">Jeri Ryan</a>, actress known for work on the television series <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_Voyager" title="Star Trek: Voyager">Star Trek: Voyager</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Public" title="Boston Public">Boston Public</a></i>; winner of 1989 <a href="/wiki/Miss_Illinois" title="Miss Illinois">Miss Illinois</a> pageant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Scopes" class="mw-redirect" title="John Scopes">John Scopes</a>, teacher accused for teaching the theory of evolution in the <a href="/wiki/Scopes_Trial" class="mw-redirect" title="Scopes Trial">Scopes Trial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Shumpert" title="Terry Shumpert">Terry Shumpert</a>, Major League Baseball utility player for the Kansas City Royals</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Skinner" title="Roy Skinner">Roy Skinner</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_Commodores_men%27s_basketball" title="Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball">Vanderbilt basketball</a> coach<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Smith_(rockabilly_singer)" title="Ray Smith (rockabilly singer)">Ray Smith</a>, rockabilly musician<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josh_Stewart_(baseball)" title="Josh Stewart (baseball)">Josh Stewart</a>, Major League Baseball pitcher for <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> and in Japan for the <a href="/wiki/Orix_Buffaloes" title="Orix Buffaloes">Orix Buffaloes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Stewart_(singer)" title="Larry Stewart (singer)">Larry Stewart</a>, lead singer of country pop band <a href="/wiki/Restless_Heart" title="Restless Heart">Restless Heart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patsy_Terrell" title="Patsy Terrell">Patsy Terrell</a>, former Kansas state representative</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Tilghman" title="Lloyd Tilghman">Lloyd Tilghman</a>, Confederate general who commanded a brigade in the <a href="/wiki/Vicksburg_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Vicksburg Campaign">Vicksburg Campaign</a> and was killed at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Champion_Hill" title="Battle of Champion Hill">Battle of Champion Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Talley" title="Emma Talley">Emma Talley</a>, <a href="/wiki/LPGA" title="LPGA">LPGA</a> golfer, 2013 <a href="/wiki/U.S._Women%27s_Amateur" title="U.S. Women's Amateur">U.S. Women's Amateur</a> champion, <a href="/wiki/2015_NCAA_Division_I_Women%27s_Golf_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship">2015 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship</a> champion</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Twitchell" title="Paul Twitchell">Paul Twitchell</a>, founder of religious movement known as <a href="/wiki/Eckankar" title="Eckankar">Eckankar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcy_Walker" title="Marcy Walker">Marcy Walker</a> (also known as Marcy Smith), minister and former actress known for television appearances on daytime soap operas</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_McDaniel_Webb" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert McDaniel Webb">Robert McDaniel Webb</a> (known as Danny), former MLB pitcher with the Chicago White Sox</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J.D._Wilkes" class="mw-redirect" title="J.D. Wilkes">J.D. Wilkes</a>, visual artist, musician, author, and amateur filmmaker</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rumer_Willis" title="Rumer Willis">Rumer Willis</a>, actress and daughter of <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Willis" title="Bruce Willis">Bruce Willis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Demi_Moore" title="Demi Moore">Demi Moore</a>, born in Paducah while her parents were visiting for filming of <i>In Country</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Wilson_(safety)" title="George Wilson (safety)">George Wilson</a>, former football safety for NFL's <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Titans" title="Tennessee Titans">Tennessee Titans</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Kentucky.svg/32px-Flag_of_Kentucky.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Kentucky.svg/48px-Flag_of_Kentucky.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Kentucky.svg/64px-Flag_of_Kentucky.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="950" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Kentucky" title="Portal:Kentucky">Kentucky portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_along_the_Ohio_River" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities and towns along the Ohio River">List of cities and towns along the Ohio River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paducah,_Texas" title="Paducah, Texas">Paducah, Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WIAR_(Kentucky)" title="WIAR (Kentucky)">WIAR (Kentucky)</a></li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paducah,_Kentucky&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">University of Kentucky. <i>Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer</i>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uky.edu/KentuckyAtlas/ky-paducah.html">Paducah</a>". Accessed September 24, 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-sos-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-sos_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sos_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sos_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Paducah, Kentucky". Accessed September 24, 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ren-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ren_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ren_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ren_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Rennick, Robert. <i>Kentucky Place Names</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA224">p. 224</a>. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. 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title="Demographics of Kentucky">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kentucky#Economy" title="Kentucky">Economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Kentucky" title="Education in Kentucky">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Kentucky" title="Elections in Kentucky">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Kentucky" title="Gun laws in Kentucky">Gun laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_Kentucky" class="mw-redirect" title="Homelessness in Kentucky">Homelessness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Kentucky" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Kentucky">LGBT rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kentucky#Politics" title="Kentucky">Politics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_in_Kentucky" title="Sports in Kentucky">Sports</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States#Kentucky" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a></th><td 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title="Pennyroyal Plateau">Pennyroyal Plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_Purchase" title="Jackson Purchase">The Purchase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ridge-and-Valley_Appalachians" title="Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians">Ridge-and-Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley" title="Tennessee Valley">Tennessee Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Coal_Field" title="Western Coal Field">Western Coal Fields</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Kentucky" title="List of cities in Kentucky">25 largest<br /> cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" title="Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Kentucky" title="Lexington, Kentucky">Lexington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowling_Green,_Kentucky" title="Bowling Green, Kentucky">Bowling Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owensboro,_Kentucky" title="Owensboro, Kentucky">Owensboro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covington,_Kentucky" title="Covington, Kentucky">Covington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Kentucky" title="Richmond, Kentucky">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Kentucky" title="Georgetown, Kentucky">Georgetown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florence,_Kentucky" title="Florence, Kentucky">Florence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopkinsville,_Kentucky" title="Hopkinsville, Kentucky">Hopkinsville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholasville,_Kentucky" title="Nicholasville, Kentucky">Nicholasville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabethtown,_Kentucky" title="Elizabethtown, Kentucky">Elizabethtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independence,_Kentucky" title="Independence, Kentucky">Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henderson,_Kentucky" title="Henderson, Kentucky">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankfort,_Kentucky" title="Frankfort, 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title="Lexington–Fayette metropolitan area">Lexington–Fayette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisville_metropolitan_area" title="Louisville metropolitan area">Louisville/Jefferson County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_metropolitan_area" title="Cincinnati metropolitan area">Northern Kentucky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owensboro_metropolitan_area" title="Owensboro metropolitan area">Owensboro</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Kentucky" title="List of counties in Kentucky">Counties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adair_County,_Kentucky" title="Adair County, Kentucky">Adair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allen_County,_Kentucky" title="Allen County, Kentucky">Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anderson_County,_Kentucky" title="Anderson County, Kentucky">Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballard_County,_Kentucky" title="Ballard County, Kentucky">Ballard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barren_County,_Kentucky" title="Barren County, Kentucky">Barren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bath_County,_Kentucky" title="Bath County, Kentucky">Bath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bell_County,_Kentucky" title="Bell County, Kentucky">Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boone_County,_Kentucky" title="Boone County, Kentucky">Boone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bourbon_County,_Kentucky" title="Bourbon County, Kentucky">Bourbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boyd_County,_Kentucky" title="Boyd County, Kentucky">Boyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boyle_County,_Kentucky" title="Boyle County, Kentucky">Boyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bracken_County,_Kentucky" title="Bracken County, Kentucky">Bracken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breathitt_County,_Kentucky" title="Breathitt County, Kentucky">Breathitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breckinridge_County,_Kentucky" title="Breckinridge County, Kentucky">Breckinridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bullitt_County,_Kentucky" title="Bullitt County, Kentucky">Bullitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Butler_County,_Kentucky" title="Butler County, Kentucky">Butler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caldwell_County,_Kentucky" title="Caldwell County, Kentucky">Caldwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calloway_County,_Kentucky" title="Calloway County, Kentucky">Calloway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbell_County,_Kentucky" title="Campbell County, Kentucky">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlisle_County,_Kentucky" title="Carlisle County, Kentucky">Carlisle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carroll_County,_Kentucky" title="Carroll County, Kentucky">Carroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carter_County,_Kentucky" title="Carter County, Kentucky">Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casey_County,_Kentucky" title="Casey County, Kentucky">Casey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_County,_Kentucky" title="Christian County, Kentucky">Christian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark_County,_Kentucky" title="Clark County, Kentucky">Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clay_County,_Kentucky" title="Clay County, Kentucky">Clay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clinton_County,_Kentucky" title="Clinton County, Kentucky">Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crittenden_County,_Kentucky" title="Crittenden County, Kentucky">Crittenden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_County,_Kentucky" title="Cumberland County, Kentucky">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daviess_County,_Kentucky" title="Daviess County, Kentucky">Daviess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmonson_County,_Kentucky" title="Edmonson County, Kentucky">Edmonson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elliott_County,_Kentucky" title="Elliott County, Kentucky">Elliott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Estill_County,_Kentucky" title="Estill County, Kentucky">Estill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fayette_County,_Kentucky" title="Fayette County, Kentucky">Fayette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fleming_County,_Kentucky" title="Fleming County, Kentucky">Fleming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floyd_County,_Kentucky" title="Floyd County, Kentucky">Floyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_County,_Kentucky" title="Franklin County, Kentucky">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulton_County,_Kentucky" title="Fulton County, Kentucky">Fulton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gallatin_County,_Kentucky" title="Gallatin County, Kentucky">Gallatin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garrard_County,_Kentucky" title="Garrard County, Kentucky">Garrard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grant_County,_Kentucky" title="Grant County, Kentucky">Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graves_County,_Kentucky" title="Graves County, Kentucky">Graves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grayson_County,_Kentucky" title="Grayson County, Kentucky">Grayson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_County,_Kentucky" title="Green County, Kentucky">Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenup_County,_Kentucky" title="Greenup County, Kentucky">Greenup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hancock_County,_Kentucky" title="Hancock County, Kentucky">Hancock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardin_County,_Kentucky" title="Hardin County, Kentucky">Hardin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harlan_County,_Kentucky" title="Harlan County, Kentucky">Harlan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrison_County,_Kentucky" title="Harrison County, Kentucky">Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hart_County,_Kentucky" title="Hart County, Kentucky">Hart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henderson_County,_Kentucky" title="Henderson County, Kentucky">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_County,_Kentucky" title="Henry County, Kentucky">Henry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hickman_County,_Kentucky" title="Hickman County, Kentucky">Hickman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopkins_County,_Kentucky" title="Hopkins County, Kentucky">Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_County,_Kentucky" title="Jackson County, Kentucky">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Kentucky" title="Jefferson County, Kentucky">Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessamine_County,_Kentucky" title="Jessamine County, Kentucky">Jessamine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_County,_Kentucky" title="Johnson County, Kentucky">Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenton_County,_Kentucky" title="Kenton County, Kentucky">Kenton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knott_County,_Kentucky" title="Knott County, Kentucky">Knott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knox_County,_Kentucky" title="Knox County, Kentucky">Knox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LaRue_County,_Kentucky" title="LaRue County, Kentucky">LaRue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurel_County,_Kentucky" title="Laurel County, Kentucky">Laurel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_County,_Kentucky" title="Lawrence County, Kentucky">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_County,_Kentucky" title="Lee County, Kentucky">Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_County,_Kentucky" title="Leslie County, Kentucky">Leslie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letcher_County,_Kentucky" title="Letcher County, Kentucky">Letcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_County,_Kentucky" title="Lewis County, Kentucky">Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_County,_Kentucky" title="Lincoln County, Kentucky">Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livingston_County,_Kentucky" title="Livingston County, Kentucky">Livingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logan_County,_Kentucky" title="Logan County, Kentucky">Logan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyon_County,_Kentucky" title="Lyon County, Kentucky">Lyon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison_County,_Kentucky" title="Madison County, Kentucky">Madison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magoffin_County,_Kentucky" title="Magoffin County, Kentucky">Magoffin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_County,_Kentucky" title="Marion County, Kentucky">Marion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_County,_Kentucky" title="Marshall County, Kentucky">Marshall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_County,_Kentucky" title="Martin County, Kentucky">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mason_County,_Kentucky" title="Mason County, Kentucky">Mason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McCracken_County,_Kentucky" title="McCracken County, Kentucky">McCracken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McCreary_County,_Kentucky" title="McCreary County, Kentucky">McCreary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McLean_County,_Kentucky" title="McLean County, Kentucky">McLean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meade_County,_Kentucky" title="Meade County, Kentucky">Meade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menifee_County,_Kentucky" title="Menifee County, Kentucky">Menifee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercer_County,_Kentucky" title="Mercer County, Kentucky">Mercer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metcalfe_County,_Kentucky" title="Metcalfe County, Kentucky">Metcalfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monroe_County,_Kentucky" title="Monroe County, Kentucky">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Kentucky" title="Montgomery County, Kentucky">Montgomery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_County,_Kentucky" title="Morgan County, Kentucky">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhlenberg_County,_Kentucky" title="Muhlenberg County, Kentucky">Muhlenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_County,_Kentucky" title="Nelson County, Kentucky">Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_County,_Kentucky" title="Nicholas County, Kentucky">Nicholas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohio_County,_Kentucky" title="Ohio County, Kentucky">Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oldham_County,_Kentucky" title="Oldham County, Kentucky">Oldham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owen_County,_Kentucky" title="Owen County, Kentucky">Owen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owsley_County,_Kentucky" title="Owsley County, Kentucky">Owsley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pendleton_County,_Kentucky" title="Pendleton County, Kentucky">Pendleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perry_County,_Kentucky" title="Perry County, Kentucky">Perry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pike_County,_Kentucky" title="Pike County, Kentucky">Pike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powell_County,_Kentucky" title="Powell County, Kentucky">Powell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulaski_County,_Kentucky" title="Pulaski County, Kentucky">Pulaski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robertson_County,_Kentucky" title="Robertson County, Kentucky">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockcastle_County,_Kentucky" title="Rockcastle County, Kentucky">Rockcastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rowan_County,_Kentucky" title="Rowan County, Kentucky">Rowan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russell_County,_Kentucky" title="Russell County, Kentucky">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_County,_Kentucky" title="Scott County, Kentucky">Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelby_County,_Kentucky" title="Shelby County, Kentucky">Shelby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simpson_County,_Kentucky" title="Simpson County, Kentucky">Simpson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spencer_County,_Kentucky" title="Spencer County, Kentucky">Spencer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taylor_County,_Kentucky" title="Taylor County, Kentucky">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Todd_County,_Kentucky" title="Todd County, Kentucky">Todd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trigg_County,_Kentucky" title="Trigg County, Kentucky">Trigg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trimble_County,_Kentucky" title="Trimble County, Kentucky">Trimble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_County,_Kentucky" title="Union County, Kentucky">Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_County,_Kentucky" title="Warren County, Kentucky">Warren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_Kentucky" title="Washington County, Kentucky">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_County,_Kentucky" title="Wayne County, Kentucky">Wayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Webster_County,_Kentucky" title="Webster County, Kentucky">Webster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitley_County,_Kentucky" title="Whitley County, Kentucky">Whitley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfe_County,_Kentucky" title="Wolfe County, Kentucky">Wolfe</a></li> <li><a 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Kentucky">Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benton,_Kentucky" title="Benton, Kentucky">Benton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Booneville,_Kentucky" title="Booneville, Kentucky">Booneville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowling_Green,_Kentucky" title="Bowling Green, Kentucky">Bowling Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brandenburg,_Kentucky" title="Brandenburg, Kentucky">Brandenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooksville,_Kentucky" title="Brooksville, Kentucky">Brooksville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brownsville,_Kentucky" title="Brownsville, Kentucky">Brownsville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burkesville,_Kentucky" title="Burkesville, Kentucky">Burkesville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burlington,_Kentucky" title="Burlington, Kentucky">Burlington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadiz,_Kentucky" title="Cadiz, Kentucky">Cadiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calhoun,_Kentucky" title="Calhoun, Kentucky">Calhoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbellsville,_Kentucky" title="Campbellsville, Kentucky">Campbellsville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campton,_Kentucky" title="Campton, Kentucky">Campton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlisle,_Kentucky" title="Carlisle, Kentucky">Carlisle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrollton,_Kentucky" title="Carrollton, Kentucky">Carrollton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catlettsburg,_Kentucky" title="Catlettsburg, Kentucky">Catlettsburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clinton,_Kentucky" title="Clinton, Kentucky">Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia,_Kentucky" title="Columbia, Kentucky">Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covington,_Kentucky" title="Covington, Kentucky">Covington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cynthiana,_Kentucky" title="Cynthiana, Kentucky">Cynthiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danville,_Kentucky" title="Danville, Kentucky">Danville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dixon,_Kentucky" title="Dixon, Kentucky">Dixon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddyville,_Kentucky" title="Eddyville, Kentucky">Eddyville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmonton,_Kentucky" title="Edmonton, Kentucky">Edmonton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabethtown,_Kentucky" title="Elizabethtown, Kentucky">Elizabethtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elkton,_Kentucky" title="Elkton, Kentucky">Elkton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falmouth,_Kentucky" title="Falmouth, Kentucky">Falmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flemingsburg,_Kentucky" title="Flemingsburg, Kentucky">Flemingsburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankfort,_Kentucky" title="Frankfort, Kentucky">Frankfort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin,_Kentucky" title="Franklin, Kentucky">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frenchburg,_Kentucky" title="Frenchburg, Kentucky">Frenchburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Kentucky" title="Georgetown, Kentucky">Georgetown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow,_Kentucky" title="Glasgow, Kentucky">Glasgow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grayson,_Kentucky" title="Grayson, Kentucky">Grayson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greensburg,_Kentucky" title="Greensburg, Kentucky">Greensburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenup,_Kentucky" title="Greenup, Kentucky">Greenup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenville,_Kentucky" title="Greenville, Kentucky">Greenville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardinsburg,_Kentucky" title="Hardinsburg, Kentucky">Hardinsburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harlan,_Kentucky" title="Harlan, Kentucky">Harlan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrodsburg,_Kentucky" title="Harrodsburg, Kentucky">Harrodsburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford,_Kentucky" title="Hartford, Kentucky">Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawesville,_Kentucky" title="Hawesville, Kentucky">Hawesville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazard,_Kentucky" title="Hazard, Kentucky">Hazard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henderson,_Kentucky" title="Henderson, Kentucky">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hickman,_Kentucky" title="Hickman, Kentucky">Hickman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindman,_Kentucky" title="Hindman, Kentucky">Hindman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hodgenville,_Kentucky" title="Hodgenville, Kentucky">Hodgenville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopkinsville,_Kentucky" title="Hopkinsville, Kentucky">Hopkinsville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyden,_Kentucky" title="Hyden, Kentucky">Hyden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independence,_Kentucky" title="Independence, Kentucky">Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inez,_Kentucky" title="Inez, Kentucky">Inez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irvine,_Kentucky" title="Irvine, Kentucky">Irvine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson,_Kentucky" title="Jackson, Kentucky">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamestown,_Kentucky" title="Jamestown, Kentucky">Jamestown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Grange,_Kentucky" title="La Grange, Kentucky">La Grange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancaster,_Kentucky" title="Lancaster, Kentucky">Lancaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrenceburg,_Kentucky" title="Lawrenceburg, Kentucky">Lawrenceburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanon,_Kentucky" title="Lebanon, Kentucky">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leitchfield,_Kentucky" title="Leitchfield, Kentucky">Leitchfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Kentucky" title="Lexington, Kentucky">Lexington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty,_Kentucky" title="Liberty, Kentucky">Liberty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London,_Kentucky" title="London, Kentucky">London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisa,_Kentucky" title="Louisa, Kentucky">Louisa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" title="Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madisonville,_Kentucky" title="Madisonville, Kentucky">Madisonville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Kentucky" title="Manchester, Kentucky">Manchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion,_Kentucky" title="Marion, Kentucky">Marion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayfield,_Kentucky" title="Mayfield, Kentucky">Mayfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maysville,_Kentucky" title="Maysville, Kentucky">Maysville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McKee,_Kentucky" title="McKee, Kentucky">McKee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monticello,_Kentucky" title="Monticello, Kentucky">Monticello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morehead,_Kentucky" title="Morehead, Kentucky">Morehead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morganfield,_Kentucky" title="Morganfield, Kentucky">Morganfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgantown,_Kentucky" title="Morgantown, Kentucky">Morgantown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Olivet,_Kentucky" title="Mount Olivet, Kentucky">Mount Olivet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Sterling,_Kentucky" title="Mount Sterling, Kentucky">Mount Sterling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon,_Kentucky" title="Mount Vernon, Kentucky">Mount Vernon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munfordville,_Kentucky" title="Munfordville, Kentucky">Munfordville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murray,_Kentucky" title="Murray, Kentucky">Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Castle,_Kentucky" title="New Castle, Kentucky">New Castle</a></li> <li><a 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