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Adair County
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county in Kentucky, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- Named after
- John Adair
- Seat
- Columbia
- Largest city
- Columbia
- Judge executive
- Larry Russell Bryant (R)
- Total
- 412 sq mi (1,070 km )
- Land
- 405 sq mi (1,050 km )
- Water
- 7.1 sq mi (18 km ) 1.7%
- Estimate 2025
- 19,423
- Density
- 46.7/sq mi (18.0/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- adaircounty .ky .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- John Adair
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kentucky
- Contains
- Columbia
- Capital
- Columbia
- Population
- 18903
- Area
- 1068
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Metcalfe County
- Official website
- www.columbia-adaircounty.com
- Image
- Adair County Kentucky courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 6991
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- Commons category
- Adair County, Kentucky
- topic's main category
- Category:Adair County, Kentucky
- inception
- 1801-12-11
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Adair County, Kentucky
- different from
- Adair County
- water as percent of area
- 1.7
- native label
- Adair County
- per capita income
- 22751
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Encyclopedic overview
Adair County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,903. Its county seat and only municipality is Columbia. The county was founded in 1801 and named for John Adair, then Speaker of the House in Kentucky and later Governor of Kentucky (1820–1824). Adair County has some of the few surviving American Chestnut trees in the United States.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adair County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.