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Wayne County
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county in Kentucky, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- Founded
- December 13, 1800
- Named after
- Anthony Wayne
- Seat
- Monticello
- Largest city
- Monticello
- Judge executive
- Scott Gehring (R)
- Total
- 484 sq mi (1,250 km )
- Land
- 458 sq mi (1,190 km )
- Water
- 26 sq mi (67 km ) 5.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 19,597
- Density
- 42.7/sq mi (16.5/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 5th
- Website
- waynecounty .ky .gov /Pages /default .aspx
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Anthony Wayne
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kentucky
- Contains
- Monticello
- Capital
- Monticello
- Population
- 19555
- Area
- 484
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Clinton County
- Official website
- www.monticellokychamber.com
- Image
- Wayne County Kentucky courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 8298
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- different from
- Wayne County
- Commons category
- Wayne County, Kentucky
- topic's main category
- Category:Wayne County, Kentucky
- inception
- 1800-12-18
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Wayne County, Kentucky
- water as percent of area
- 5.4
- native label
- Wayne County
- per capita income
- 26172
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Encyclopedic overview
Wayne County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky along the southern border with Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,555. Its county seat is Monticello. The county, on the south-central border with Tennessee, was named for Gen. Anthony Wayne, a Revolutionary War hero. As of November 3, 2020, Wayne County is a wet county—a measure allowing the sales and consumption of alcoholic drinks passed by a margin of 4,901 for and 3,966 against.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wayne County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.