Christian County, Kentucky
| Christian County, Kentucky | |
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Christian County courthouse in Hopkinsville
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 Location in the U.S. state of Kentucky |
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 Kentucky's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | 1797 |
| Named for | William Christian |
| Seat | Hopkinsville |
| Largest city | Hopkinsville |
| Area | |
| • Total | 724 sq mi (1,875 km2) |
| • Land | 718 sq mi (1,860 km2) |
| • Water | 6.5 sq mi (17 km2), 0.9% |
| Population | |
| • (2010) | 73,955 |
| • Density | 103/sq mi (40/km²) |
| Congressional district | 1st |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 |
| Website | www |
Christian County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 73,955. Its county seat is Hopkinsville. The county was formed in 1797.
Christian County is part of the Clarksville, TN–KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The county is named for Colonel William Christian, a native of Augusta County, Virginia, and a veteran of the Revolutionary War. He settled near Louisville, Kentucky in 1785, and was killed by Native Americans in southern Indiana in 1786.
Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America was born in Fairview, Christian County, Kentucky, in 1808. United States Vice President Adlai Stevenson I was born in Christian County in 1835.
The present courthouse, built in 1869, replaced a structure burned by Confederate cavalry in 1864 because the Union Army was using it as their barracks.
The United States Supreme Court case Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514 (1972), arose out of a 1958 double-murder in Christian County, Kentucky.
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