Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- County
- Owen
- Named after
- Its County
- Total
- 1.93 sq mi (5.01 km )
- Land
- 1.90 sq mi (4.92 km )
- Water
- 0.031 sq mi (0.08 km )
- Elevation
- 958 ft (292 m)
- Estimate 2022
- 1,671
- Density
- 884.8/sq mi (341.63/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 21-58692
- Website
- https://cityofowentonky.us/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Owenton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Owen County
- Population
- 1682
- Area
- 2.846322
- Elevation
- 295
- Capital of
- Owen County
- Image
- Downtown Owenton Kentucky.jpg
- Households
- 740
- Dialing code
- 502
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- postal code
- 40359
- Commons category
- Owenton, Kentucky
- inception
- 1828-00-00
- different from
- Owensboro
- P8168
- Radical 164
- water as percent of area
- 0.3947
- per capita income
- 20420
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Encyclopedic overview
Owenton is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Owen County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census, Owenton had a population of 1,682. It is located at the junction of U.S. Route 127 and Kentucky Route 22, about halfway between Louisville and Cincinnati.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Owenton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.