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Fayette County
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county in Kentucky, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- Named after
- Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
- Seat
- Lexington
- Largest city
- Lexington
- Judge executive
- Mary Diane Hanna (D)
- Total
- 286 sq mi (740 km )
- Land
- 284 sq mi (740 km )
- Water
- 1.9 sq mi (4.9 km ) 0.7%
- Estimate 2025
- 329,751
- Density
- 1,140/sq mi (439/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 6th
- Website
- www .lexingtonky .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Lexington
- Named after
- Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kentucky
- Capital
- Lexington
- Population
- 322570
- Area
- 739
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Woodford County
- Official website
- www.lexingtonky.gov
- Image
- Robert F. Stephens Courthouse, Fayette County Kentucky.jpg
- Households
- 130926
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- Commons category
- Fayette County, Kentucky
- topic's main category
- Category:Fayette County, Kentucky
- inception
- 1780-05-01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Fayette County, Kentucky
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Fayette County, Kentucky
- water as percent of area
- 0.7
- native label
- Fayette County
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Lexington–Fayette metropolitan area
- per capita income
- 35466
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Encyclopedic overview
Fayette County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky and is consolidated with the city of Lexington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 322,570, making it the second-most populous county in the commonwealth. Since 1974, its territory, population and government have been shared with Lexington. Fayette County is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fayette County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.