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Montgomery County
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county in Kentucky, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- Named after
- Richard Montgomery
- Seat
- Mount Sterling
- Largest city
- Mount Sterling
- Judge executive
- Chris Haddix (R)
- Total
- 199 sq mi (520 km )
- Land
- 197 sq mi (510 km )
- Water
- 1.5 sq mi (3.9 km ) 0.7%
- Estimate 2025
- 28,822
- Density
- 143/sq mi (55.1/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 6th
- Website
- montgomerycounty .ky .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,114. Its county seat is Mount Sterling. With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county—a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city where package alcohol sales are allowed, in this case Mount Sterling. Montgomery County is part of the Mount Sterling, KY Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Lexington-Fayette–Richmond–Frankfort, KY combined statistical area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Montgomery County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.