Elliott County, Kentucky
| Elliott County, Kentucky | |
 Elliott County courthouse in Sandy Hook, Kentucky
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 Location in the state of Kentucky |
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 Kentucky's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | 1869 |
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| Named for | John Lisle Elliott or John Milton Elliott (1820–1885), legislators. |
| Seat | Sandy Hook |
| Area - Total - Land - Water |
235.20 sq mi (609 km²) 233.96 sq mi (606 km²) 1.24 sq mi (3 km²), 0.53% |
| Population - (2000) - Density |
6,748 29/sq mi (11/km²) |
| Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 |
Elliott County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed in 1869. As of 2000, the population is 6,748. Its county seat is Sandy Hook, Kentucky[1]. The county is named for John Milton Elliott, U.S. Congressman; Confederate Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Elliott County is one of 55 counties in the Kentucky that is a dry county, meaning the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited everywhere in the county.
It was formed on April 1, 1869, from parts of Morgan, Lawrence, and Carter counties.
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[edit] Geography
According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of 235.20 square miles (609.2 km2), of which 233.96 square miles (606.0 km2) (or 99.47%) is land and 1.24 square miles (3.2 km2) (or 0.53%) is water.[2]
[edit] Adjacent counties
- Carter County (north)
- Lawrence County (east)
- Morgan County (south)
- Rowan County (west)
[edit] Politics
Elliott County has voted for the Democratic Party's nominee in every Presidential election since it incorporated in 1869. This is the longest ongoing streak of any county voting Democratic in the United States.[3]
Elliott County was the second whitest county in the country, at 99.04%, to vote for Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election, the whitest being Mitchell County, Iowa. Obama garnered 61% of the vote, while John McCain received 36%. In 2008, Elliott county provided Obama with the highest percentage of the winning vote out of all Kentucky counties.[4]
[edit] Demographics
As of the census[5] of 2000, there were 6,748 people, 2,638 households, and 1,925 families residing in the county. The population density was 29 per square mile (11 /km2). There were 3,107 housing units at an average density of 13 per square mile (5.0 /km2). The racial makeup of the county was 99.04% White, 0.03% Black or African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.01% from other races, and 0.83% from two or more races. 0.59% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1870 | 4,433 |
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| 1880 | 6,567 | 48.1% | |
| 1890 | 9,214 | 40.3% | |
| 1900 | 10,387 | 12.7% | |
| 1910 | 9,814 | −5.5% | |
| 1920 | 8,887 | −9.4% | |
| 1930 | 7,571 | −14.8% | |
| 1940 | 8,713 | 15.1% | |
| 1950 | 7,085 | −18.7% | |
| 1960 | 6,330 | −10.7% | |
| 1970 | 5,933 | −6.3% | |
| 1980 | 6,908 | 16.4% | |
| 1990 | 6,455 | −6.6% | |
| 2000 | 6,748 | 4.5% | |
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There were 2,638 households out of which 33.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.00% were married couples living together, 9.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.00% were non-families. 24.70% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.02.
People of British ancestry, form an overwhelming plurality in Elliot County, Kentucky.[6][7][8][9][10]
In the county the population was spread out with 25.40% under the age of 18, 9.10% from 18 to 24, 27.50% from 25 to 44, 24.70% from 45 to 64, and 13.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 95.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.50 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $21,014, and the median income for a family was $27,125. Males had a median income of $29,593 versus $20,339 for females. The per capita income for the county was $12,067. About 20.80% of families and 25.90% of the population were below the poverty line, including 30.50% of those under age 18 and 26.40% of those age 65 or over.
[edit] Cities, towns and settlements
- Ault
- Bascom
- Beartown
- Bell City
- Bigstone
- Blaines Trace
- Bruin
- Brushy Fork
- Burke
- Clay Fork
- Cliffside
- Culver
- Dewdrop
- Dobbins
- Edsel
- Eldridge
- Fannin
- Fannin Valley
- Faye
- Fielden
- Forks of Newcombe
- Gimlet
- Gomez
- Green
- Halcom
- Ibex
- Isonville
- Little Fork
- Little Sandy
- Lytten
- Middle Fork
- Neil Howard's Creek
- Newcombe
- Newfoundland
- Ordinary
- Roscoe
- Shady Grove
- Sandy Hook
- Sarah
- Sideway
- Spanglin
- Stark
- Stephens
- The Ridge
- Wells Creek
- Wyatt
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
- ^ "Census 2000 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Counties". United States Census. http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/county2k.txt. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
- ^ Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
- ^ NYT Electoral explorer
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "Ancestry of the Population by State: 1980 - Table 3" (PDF). http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/files/pc80-s1-10/tab03.pdf. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
- ^ Sharing the Dream: White Males in a Multicultural America By Dominic J. Pulera.
- ^ Reynolds Farley, 'The New Census Question about Ancestry: What Did It Tell Us?', Demography, Vol. 28, No. 3 (August 1991), pp. 414, 421.
- ^ Stanley Lieberson and Lawrence Santi, 'The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns', Social Science Research, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 44-6.
- ^ Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, 'Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 487, No. 79 (September 1986), pp. 82-86.
[edit] External links
- The Year of Plenty, children's historical fiction set in Elliott County
- The Kentucky Highlands Project
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