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Caldwell County
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county in Kentucky, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- Named after
- John Caldwell
- Seat
- Princeton
- Largest city
- Princeton
- Judge executive
- Dakota Young (R)
- Total
- 348 sq mi (900 km )
- Land
- 345 sq mi (890 km )
- Water
- 3.4 sq mi (8.8 km ) 1.0%
- Estimate 2025
- 12,609
- Density
- 36.7/sq mi (14.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- caldwellcounty .ky .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- John Caldwell
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kentucky
- Contains
- Princeton
- Capital
- Princeton
- Population
- 12649
- Area
- 902
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Crittenden County
- Official website
- www.caldwellcounty.ky.gov
- Image
- Caldwell County Courthouse KY-retouched.jpg
- Households
- 5215
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- Commons category
- Caldwell County, Kentucky
- topic's main category
- Category:Caldwell County, Kentucky
- inception
- 1809-01-31
- different from
- Caldwell Parish
- water as percent of area
- 1
- native label
- Caldwell County
- per capita income
- 32439
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Caldwell County, Kentucky
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Encyclopedic overview
Caldwell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,649. Its county seat is Princeton. The county was formed in 1809 from Livingston County, Kentucky and named for John Caldwell, who participated in the George Rogers Clark Indian Campaign of 1786 and was the second lieutenant governor of Kentucky. Caldwell was a prohibition or dry county until 2013, when the citizens voted to lift the ban.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caldwell County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.