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Paducah
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city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- County
- McCracken
- Settled
- c. 1821
- Named after
- the Chickasaw Tribe
- Type
- City Manager
- Mayor
- George Bray
- City commissioners
- Sandra Wilson. Raynarldo Henderson, Robert Smith, Dujuan Thomas
- City
- 20.75 sq mi (53.74 km )
- Land
- 20.31 sq mi (52.59 km )
- Water
- 0.44 sq mi (1.15 km )
- Elevation
- 341 ft (104 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 27,205
- Density
- 1,336.6/sq mi (516.06/km )
- Metro
- 103,481
- Demonym
- Paducahan
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Paducah
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- McCracken County
- Population
- 27137
- Area
- 51.807168
- Elevation
- 104
- Body of water
- Ohio River
- Capital of
- McCracken County
- Official website
- www.paducahky.gov
- Image
- Broadway - Paducah, Kentucky.jpg
- Households
- 11592
- Dialing code
- 364
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- topic's main category
- Category:Paducah, Kentucky
- Commons category
- Paducah, Kentucky
- inception
- 1821-00-00
- postal code
- 42003
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Paducah, Kentucky
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Paducah, Kentucky
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P8168
- Ohrazenice
- member of
- Creative Cities Network
- water as percent of area
- 0.5167
- per capita income
- 30620
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Encyclopedic overview
Paducah (/pəˈduːkə/ pə-DOO-kə) is a city in the Upland South, and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. The most populous city in the Jackson Purchase region, it is located in the Southeastern United States at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio rivers, halfway between St. Louis, Missouri, to the northwest and Nashville, Tennessee, to the southeast. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,137, up from 25,024 in 2010. Twenty blocks of the city's downtown have been designated as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Paducah is the principal city of the Paducah metropolitan area, which includes McCracken, Ballard, Carlisle and Livingston counties in Kentucky and Massac County in Illinois. The total population of the metro area was 103,481 in 2020. The Paducah–Mayfield combined statistical area had a total population of 140,138. Paducah is a home-rule class city under Kentucky law.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paducah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.