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Carlisle County
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county in Kentucky, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- Named after
- John G. Carlisle
- Seat
- Bardwell
- Largest city
- Bardwell
- Judge executive
- Greg Terry (D)
- Total
- 199 sq mi (520 km )
- Land
- 189 sq mi (490 km )
- Water
- 9.5 sq mi (25 km ) 4.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 4,747
- Density
- 25.5/sq mi (9.86/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- www .carlislecountyky .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- John G. Carlisle
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kentucky
- Capital
- Bardwell
- Population
- 4826
- Area
- 515
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Graves County
- Official website
- carlislecounty.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx
- Image
- Carlisle County Courthouse near Bardwell.jpg
- Households
- 1925
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- Commons category
- Carlisle County, Kentucky
- topic's main category
- Category:Carlisle County, Kentucky
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Carlisle County, Kentucky
- inception
- 1886-04-03
- water as percent of area
- 4.8
- native label
- Carlisle County
- different from
- Carlisle
- per capita income
- 29638
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Encyclopedic overview
Carlisle County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,826, making it the fourth-least populous county in Kentucky. Its county seat is Bardwell. The county was founded in 1886 and named for John Griffin Carlisle, a Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky. It remains a prohibition or dry county. Carlisle County is included in the Paducah, KY-IL, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carlisle County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.