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Clinton County
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county in Kentucky, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- Founded
- February 20, 1835
- Named after
- DeWitt Clinton
- Seat
- Albany
- Largest city
- Albany
- Judge executive
- Ricky Craig (R)
- Total
- 205 sq mi (530 km )
- Land
- 197 sq mi (510 km )
- Water
- 8.2 sq mi (21 km ) 4.0%
- Estimate 2025
- 9,139
- Density
- 47.0/sq mi (18.1/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- clintoncounty .ky .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky in the Pennyrile Region along the southern border with Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 9,253. Its county seat is Albany. The county was formed in 1835 and named for DeWitt Clinton, the seventh Governor of New York. It is a prohibition or dry county.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clinton County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.