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Kentucky Counties

Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, third in the U.S. behind Texas's 254 and Georgia's 159.

Greenup County, Kentucky

Greenup County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Greenup
Year Organized: 1804
Square Miles: 346

Court House:

Main Street, Room 102
County Courthouse
Greenup, KY 41144-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Christopher Greenup (1750-1818), Kentucky's 1st congressman, 3rd governor of Kentucky; clerk of the Kentucky Senate.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Greenup county was formed in 1804. It is located in the Eastern Coal Field region of the state. The elevation in the county ranges from 485 to 1200 feet above sea level. In 2000 the county population was 36,891 in a land area of 346.11 square miles, an average of 106.6 people per square mile. The county seat is Greenup.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Scioto County, Ohio
East: Lawrence County, Ohio
Southeast: Boyd County
Southwest: Carter County
West: Lewis County

Cities and Towns:

- Flatwoods	city	Incorporated Area
- Greenup (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Raceland	city	Incorporated Area
- Russell	city	Incorporated Area
- South Shore	city	Incorporated Area
- Worthington	city	Incorporated Area
- Wurtland	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."