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The county was founded in November 1822 and named for Colonel Richard Callaway, one of the founders of Boonesborough. [3] Calloway County comprises the Murray, KY Micropolitan Statistical Area. As of July 18, 2012 Calloway County is a moist county: the sale of alcohol in the county is prohibited, with the exception of the city of Murray.
English: This is a locator map showing Calloway County in Kentucky. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Murray is a home rule-class city [4] in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States. It is the seat of Calloway County [5] and the 19th-largest city in Kentucky. [6] The city's population was 17,307 during the 2020 U.S. census, [7] and its micropolitan area's population is 37,191. Murray is a college town and is the home of Murray State University.
Because today's largest county by area, Pike County, is 788 square miles (2,041 km 2), it is only still possible to form a new county from portions of more than one existing county; McCreary County was formed in this manner, from parts of Wayne, Pulaski and Whitley counties. Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776.
Hazel is located in southern Calloway County at (36.504658, −88.325443 It is north of Paris, Tennessee , and south of Murray on the Tennessee -Kentucky border. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 0.37 square miles (0.96 km 2 ), all land.
Van Cleave is an unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky United States. The community is centered around the intersection of Van Cleave Road, Elm Grove Road and Todd Road just north of Kentucky Route 80. [1] The community had a post office from February 7, 1895, to October 14, 1905. [2]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
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