Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- County
- Ohio
- Mayor
- Paul Sandefur
- Total
- 3.05 sq mi (7.89 km )
- Land
- 3.04 sq mi (7.87 km )
- Water
- 0.0077 sq mi (0.02 km )
- Elevation
- 410 ft (125 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 3,535
- Density
- 1,162.2/sq mi (448.71/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Area codes
- 270 & 364
- Fips code
- 21-04654
- Gnis feature id
- 0486616
- Website
- https://beaverdam.ky.gov/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Beaver Dam
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Ohio County
- Population
- 3531
- Area
- 6.782717
- Elevation
- 125
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Official website
- www.beaverdamkentucky.com
- Image
- Beaver-Dam-Main-ky.jpg
- Households
- 1395
- Dialing code
- 270
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- postal code
- 42320
- Commons category
- Beaver Dam, Kentucky
- inception
- 1800-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0.2996
- per capita income
- 36001
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Encyclopedic overview
Beaver Dam is a home rule-class city in Ohio County, Kentucky, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, Beaver Dam had a population of 3,531. It is the most populous community in the county. It is named for the Beaver Dam Baptist Church which predates the town by several decades. The city was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1873.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beaver Dam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.