Burkesville, Kentucky Burkesville, Kentucky Cumberland County courthouse in Burkesville Cumberland County courthouse in Burkesville Location of Burkesville in Kentucky Location of Burkesville in Kentucky Burkesville is a home rule-class town/city in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in the United States.
Nestled among the rolling foothills of Appalachia and bordered by the Cumberland River to the south and east, it is the seat of its county. The populace was 1,521 at the 2010 census. In 1846, it was incorporated as a town/city and titled Burkesville after Isham Burk, a prominent citizen prestige at that time.
Just as Kentucky was a border state in the Civil War, so was Burkesville a border town.
Burkesville stood on the Cumberland River, a primary natural barrier between opposing forces, so Union and Confederate troops as well as guerillas led by Champ Ferguson sparred athwart the countryside.
Burkesville was a fairly busy river port whose heyday came amid the latter part of the nineteenth century, when water transit was the most feasible way to move large quantities of goods.
The last steamboat docked in Burkesville in 1929, the year after the first primary road was opened to the larger town/city of Glasgow, 40 miles (64 km) to the west.
River trade and dredging died out as Burkesville waned in economic importance, and ended permanently when the Tennessee Valley Authority assembled dams without locks both upstream (Wolf Creek Dam) and downstream (Dale Hollow Dam) in the mid-twentieth century.
Two streets branch off perpendicular to Main: River Street runs straight toward the Cumberland River and provides access to the town's only enhance boat ramp, while Hill Street immediately begins scaling the Alpine Hill that towers over the city.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.64 square miles (6.85 km2), of which 2.57 square miles (6.65 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.20 km2), or 2.90%, is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,756 citizens , 768 homeholds, and 459 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.9% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 23.5% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 23.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $17,209, and the median income for a family was $24,028.
Williams, judge of the Kentucky 40th Circuit Court, former President of the Kentucky Senate, 1992 Republican candidate for U.S.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Burkesville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Kentucky League of Cities.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Burkesville city, Kentucky".
Burkesville Kentucky Online.
State historical plaque positioned in Burkesville, Kentucky Archived October 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
Climate Summary for Burkesville, Kentucky City of Burkesville official website Burkesville, Kentucky, at City-data.com Municipalities and communities of Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States County seats in Kentucky
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