Paducah | |
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 Broadway, Paducah Downtown Commercial District | |
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 Location of Paducah in McCracken County, Kentucky | |
  Paducah  Paducah | |
| Coordinates: 37°4′20″N 88°37′39″W / 37.07222°N 88.62750°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kentucky |
| County | McCracken |
| Settled | c. 1821[1] |
| Established | 1830[2] |
| Incorporated | 1838[2] |
| Named for | the Chickasaw Tribe[3] |
| Government | |
| • Type | City Manager |
| • Mayor | George Bray |
| • City Commissioners | Sandra Wilson. Raynarldo Henderson, Robert Smith, Dujuan Thomas |
| Area | |
• City | 20.75 sq mi (53.74 km2) |
| • Land | 20.30 sq mi (52.59 km2) |
| • Water | 0.45 sq mi (1.15 km2) |
| Elevation | 341 ft (104 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• City | 27,137 |
• Estimate (2023)[5] | 27,205 |
| • Density | 1,336.60/sq mi (516.06/km2) |
| • Metro | 103,481 |
| Demonym | Paducahan |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
| ZIP Code | 42001-42002-42003 |
| Area code(s) | 270 & 364 |
| FIPS code | 21-58836 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0500106 |
| Website | paducahky |
Paducah (/pəˈduːkə/ pə-DOO-kə) is a home rule-class city in the Upland South, and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States.[6] The largest city in the Jackson Purchase region, it is located in the Southeastern United States at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio rivers, halfway between St. Louis, Missouri, to the northwest and Nashville, Tennessee, to the southeast. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,137,[7] up from 25,024 in 2010.[8] Twenty blocks of the city's downtown have been designated as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Paducah is the principal city of the Paducah metropolitan area, which includes McCracken, Ballard, Carlisle and Livingston counties in Kentucky and Massac County in Illinois. The total population of the metro area was 103,481 in 2020. The Paducah–Mayfield combined statistical area had a total population of 140,138.
- ^ University of Kentucky. Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer, "Paducah". Accessed September 24, 2013.
- ^ a b Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Paducah, Kentucky". Accessed September 24, 2013.
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- ^ "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places in Kentucky: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2023". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
- ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 14, 2011.