Henderson County, Kentucky
| Henderson County, Kentucky | |
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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 | 1798 |
| Named for | Richard Henderson |
| Seat | Henderson |
| Largest city | Henderson |
| Area | |
| • Total | 466 sq mi (1,207 km2) |
| • Land | 437 sq mi (1,132 km2) |
| • Water | 30 sq mi (78 km2), 6.4% |
| Population | |
| • (2010) | 46,250 |
| • Density | 106/sq mi (41/km²) |
| Congressional district | 1st |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 |
| Website | hendersonky |
Henderson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 46,250. The county seat is Henderson. The county was formed in 1798 and named for Colonel Richard Henderson who purchased 17,000,000 acres (69,000 km2) of land from the Cherokee Indians, part of which would eventually make up the county.
Henderson County is part of the Evansville, IN-KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Henderson County was established in 1798, using land taken from Christian County.
A peninsula across the Ohio from Henderson, which now forms Union Township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, was the subject of Handly's Lessee v. Anthony, a U.S. Supreme Court case in 1820. An area known as "Green River Island" is part of Kentucky, even though is on the Indiana side of the Ohio River. The Ellis Park Race Course is located there.
Once home to part of the Cherokee Nation, members of the Southern Cherokee were welcomed to Kentucky in 1893 and recognized as an Indian tribe by Governor John Young Brown. The Southern Cherokee still live in Henderson County.
A workplace shooting occurred at an Atlantis Plastics factory in Henderson, Kentucky, United States on June 25, 2008. The gunman, 25-year-old Wesley Neal Higdon, shot and killed five people and critically injured a sixth, before taking his own life. The mass murder is the worst in the history of Henderson County, surpassing the triple homicides that took place in 1799 and 1955.
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