Trimble County, Kentucky

Trimble County
County
Trimble County Courthouse in Bedford
Trimble County Courthouse in Bedford
Map of Kentucky highlighting Trimble County
Location within the U.S. state of Kentucky
Map of the United States highlighting Kentucky
Kentucky's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 38°36′N 85°20′W / 38.6°N 85.34°W / 38.6; -85.34
Country United States
State Kentucky
FoundedFebruary 9, 1854
SeatBedford
Largest cityMilton
Government
 • Judge/ExecutiveJohn David Ogburn Jr.
Area
 • Total
156 sq mi (400 km2)
 • Land152 sq mi (390 km2)
 • Water4.6 sq mi (12 km2)  2.9%
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
8,474
 • Estimate 
(2023)
8,607 Increase
 • Density54/sq mi (21/km2)
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
Congressional district4th
Websitewww.trimblecounty.ky.gov

Trimble County is a county located in the north central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Its county seat is Bedford.[1] The county was founded in 1837 and is named for Robert Trimble.[2][3] Trimble is no longer a prohibition or dry county. Trimble County is part of the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY–IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 156 square miles (400 km2), of which 152 square miles (390 km2) is land and 4.6 square miles (12 km2) (2.9%) is water.[4] It is the fifth-smallest county in Kentucky by land area and fourth-smallest by total area. The county's western border with Indiana is formed by the Ohio River.

The county is largely divided into two by a central roughly north–south ridge; to the east of which lie the Little Kentucky River and Daughtery, Buck, and Carmen Creeks; and to the west of which lie Spring, Corn, Middle, Patton's and Barebone Creeks, tributaries of the Ohio River.[5][6]

Adjacent counties

Manufacturing

LG&E and KU's newest power plant, the Trimble County Generating Station, provides power to about 1 million Kentucky residents.[7] and is located on 2,200 acres situated along the Ohio River, 50 miles northeast of Louisville.[8] It has been recognized as one of the most environmentally friendly coal fired plants in the country.[9] Controversy with the plant include, the desire of the plant to dump its coal ash on its site.[7] The EPA has said the plant should consider shipping the waste to Gallatin County, Kentucky to be placed in an underground limestone mine that already holds a permit to accept coal combustion waste.[7]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
18404,480—
18505,96333.1%
18605,880−1.4%
18705,577−5.2%
18807,17128.6%
18907,140−0.4%
19007,2721.8%
19106,512−10.5%
19206,011−7.7%
19305,348−11.0%
19405,6014.7%
19505,148−8.1%
19605,102−0.9%
19705,3494.8%
19806,25316.9%
19906,090−2.6%
20008,12533.4%
20108,8098.4%
20208,474−3.8%
2023 (est.)8,607[10]1.6%
U.S. Decennial Census[11]
1790–1960[12] 1900–1990[13]
1990–2000[14] 2010–2020[15]
Trimble County Jail, built circa 1850

According to the census of 2010, there were 8,809 people and 3,512 households from 2009 to 2013.[16] The population density was 55 per square mile (21/km2). There were 3,437 housing units at an average density of 23 per square mile (8.9/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 96.2% White, 1.5% Black or African American, 0.6% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 0.68% from other races, and 1.1% from two or more races. 3.5% of the population were Hispanic or Latino.[16]

There were 3,137 households, out of which 35.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.60% were married couples living together, 8.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.80% were non-families. 22.00% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.00.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 26.40% under the age of 18, 7.70% from 18 to 24, 30.90% from 25 to 44, 23.60% from 45 to 64, and 11.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.80 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.80 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $36,192, and the median income for a family was $41,925. Males had a median income of $30,500 versus $21,656 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,354. About 10.00% of families and 13.60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.70% of those under age 18 and 16.80% of those age 65 or over.

Communities

Trimble county comprises two major towns, a couple of hamlets, and various small settlements.[17] The 1877 Collins county history identified the towns of Bedford, Milton, Kingston, and Palmyra.[6] Later authorities have differed from this.

The town of Bedford at the junction of United States Highways 421 and 42 is the county seat but was not its largest town until the middle 20th century.[18] Its environs include Callis Grove, to the north, the site of an open-air tabernacle and campgrounds built by a Methodist church, retaining the name of the old Callis Grove post office run by Robert Edward Callis from June 1893 to September 1894 at the junction of what is now U.S. highway 42 and New Hope Road;[19] and Bedford Springs, a set of springs popular before the U.S. Civil War.[20]

The largest town until then was the port town of Milton, which was also the oldest town, at the junction of U.S. Highway 421 and Kentucky Route 36 and across the Ohio River from Madison, Indiana.[21] It is widely believed that it used to have the name "Kingston" but in fact Kingston was a nearby, and not as old, village that Milton subsumed by an act of the Kentucky General Assembly in March 1872.[22] In its vicinity are such things as Lookout Point[20] and the erstwhile farm of Delia Webster.

Wise's Landing was a thriving port town in the 19th century that has dwindled down to a hamlet, whose identity is intermingled with Corn Creek, the name of one of the county's creeks that the Landing served and also (confusingly) the name of the Wise's Landing post office and thus the name given to the town on many maps over the years.[23] It is at the mouth of Barebones Creek whose headwaters lie at Bedford and one of whose forks is Pryors Fork, sometimes identified on maps by its post office Trimble. Their collective environs include Payne Hollow, Preston Hollow (and an erstwhile Preston Plantation), and Spring Creek.

The rest of the county was in the 19th century a wide number of very small settlements, characterized as "just 'store-school-church' crossroads" by geographer Nancy Demaree.[17] Before the school system was centralized and the advent of Rural Free Delivery in the 20th century there were twenty-odd post offices and a similar number of little schools throughout the county.

In the view of Robert M. Rennick, who made a lifetime study of places in Kentucky, outside the incorporated cities of Bedford and Milton only four more places with post offices have qualified as viable villages.[24] They are Wises Landing and Corn Creek, counting as two for this purpose despite their historic conflation, Abbott/Abbotsford, which also may not actually have been separate places, and Providence.[24]

It isn't known where exactly the Abbotsford post office, and the two later post offices named Abbot, actually were, as the location reports on the forms that were submitted by their postmasters to the government are subject to interpretation.[25] Abbotsford post office from the name was at a "ford" somewhere on the Little Kentucky River, or possibly another watercourse, in the store and hotel of postmaster James Abbot.[25] The first Abbot post office (1880-08-02 to June 1883) was in postmaster Madison Dunn's home north of the Little Kentucky River.[25] The second Abbot post office (1886-04-06 to August 1906) was originally to be named Abbots Ford, but "Ford" was crossed out on the form, and was (according to postmaster William R. Morgan) one mile to the north-east of Middle Creek, five miles to the east of the Ohio River, and five miles south of Bedford.[26] This is roughly the location of the name "Abbott" that is shown on 20th century state highway maps, although that is 4+1⁄2 miles (7.2 km) south-south-west of Bedford and 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) west of the Little Kentucky River.[26]

Robert M. Rennick characterized 19th century Ewingford as "a couple of stores and a sawmill at a ford", and 20th century Ewingford as "a small restaurant and a couple of dozen homes".[26]

Providence used to be a village, purportedly with the original name "Hammels' Store" if the post office submission form for Hammel post office (1890-04-28 to February 1903) by storekeeper George M. Hammel is to be believed.[26] It was actually identified on maps as Hammel until World War One, after which it was apparently renamed Providence after a local Baptist church.[19]

The 1847 Collins county history identies Palmyra as a village with a store and a post office, however this is contradicted by records that show no Palmyra post office and only a post office named Winona at the location, later established by one James M. Turner on 1851-01-21.[27] (The 1877 Collins history instead names Winona post office.[6]) It could not have been called Palmyra as that would have clashed with an existing Palmyra postoffice in Simpson County.[19] Nor was Palmyra the same as Vail, which actually was another post office whose lifetime overlapped that of Palmyra.[19] Vail was rather the precursor of the post office named Monitor, so renamed because after an attempt to reëstablish it in 1903 after a hiatus, it, too, then clashed with an existing postoffice with an almost identical name in another county.[19]

Cities

Unincorporated communities

Politics

United States presidential election results for Trimble County, Kentucky[28]
Year Republican Democratic Third party(ies)
No.  % No.  % No.  %
2024 3,283 77.27% 923 21.72% 43 1.01%
2020 3,227 74.70% 1,012 23.43% 81 1.88%
2016 2,771 72.96% 879 23.14% 148 3.90%
2012 2,133 60.20% 1,355 38.24% 55 1.55%
2008 2,239 58.74% 1,484 38.93% 89 2.33%
2004 2,332 61.53% 1,428 37.68% 30 0.79%
2000 1,837 59.62% 1,181 38.33% 63 2.04%
1996 999 38.90% 1,245 48.48% 324 12.62%
1992 789 29.99% 1,413 53.71% 429 16.31%
1988 1,083 44.39% 1,342 55.00% 15 0.61%
1984 1,389 55.78% 1,088 43.69% 13 0.52%
1980 824 34.45% 1,478 61.79% 90 3.76%
1976 517 24.47% 1,568 74.21% 28 1.33%
1972 935 54.61% 757 44.22% 20 1.17%
1968 511 25.98% 1,045 53.13% 411 20.89%
1964 292 13.41% 1,881 86.36% 5 0.23%
1960 743 31.89% 1,587 68.11% 0 0.00%
1956 506 21.90% 1,792 77.58% 12 0.52%
1952 370 16.52% 1,855 82.81% 15 0.67%
1948 194 9.72% 1,746 87.47% 56 2.81%
1944 264 11.95% 1,916 86.70% 30 1.36%
1940 242 11.23% 1,909 88.58% 4 0.19%
1936 271 13.91% 1,659 85.16% 18 0.92%
1932 257 10.92% 2,083 88.49% 14 0.59%
1928 573 30.24% 1,317 69.50% 5 0.26%
1924 335 16.61% 1,676 83.09% 6 0.30%
1920 361 14.83% 2,057 84.51% 16 0.66%
1916 259 16.15% 1,319 82.23% 26 1.62%
1912 163 10.96% 1,183 79.56% 141 9.48%

See also

References

  1. ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
  2. ^ "Trimble County". The Kentucky Encyclopedia. 2000. Archived from the original on October 13, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  3. ^ The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 1. Kentucky State Historical Society. 1903. pp. 37.
  4. ^ "2010 Census Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. August 22, 2012. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  5. ^ Demaree 2000, p. 23.
  6. ^ a b c Collins 1877, p. 733.
  7. ^ a b c "LG&E coal ash landfill hits another wall". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  8. ^ "Trimble County Generating Station | LG&E and KU". lge-ku.com. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  9. ^ "A Tour of LG&E & KU's Trimble County Generating Station". Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  10. ^ "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2023". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
  11. ^ "U.S. Decennial Census". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  12. ^ "Historical Census Browser". University of Virginia Library. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  13. ^ "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  14. ^ "Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 27, 2010. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  15. ^ "State & County QuickFacts". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on December 17, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  16. ^ a b "Trimble County QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau". Archived from the original on December 17, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  17. ^ a b Demaree 2000, p. 28.
  18. ^ Rennick 2000t, p. 1.
  19. ^ a b c d e Rennick 2000t, p. 7.
  20. ^ a b WPA 1939t, p. 4.
  21. ^ Rennick 2000t, p. 2.
  22. ^ Rennick 2000t, pp. 2–3.
  23. ^ Rennick 2000t, p. 3.
  24. ^ a b Rennick 2000t, p. 9.
  25. ^ a b c Rennick 2000t, p. 5.
  26. ^ a b c d Rennick 2000t, p. 6.
  27. ^ Rennick 2000t, p. 4.
  28. ^ Leip, David. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved July 6, 2018.

Sources

Further reading

  • Hounchell, Harry Lee (1939). The History of Education in Trimble County (M.A. thesis). University of Kentucky.
  • Cobb, Georgia Nellie Chandler (1953). History of Education in Trimble County (M.Ed. thesis). University of Louisville.

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