Calvert City, Kentucky Calvert City, Kentucky City Calvert City's City Hall, positioned on 5th Avenue Calvert City's City Hall, positioned on 5th Avenue Location of Calvert City, Kentucky Location of Calvert City, Kentucky Calvert City is a home rule-class town/city in Marshall County, Kentucky, United States.
Calvert City was titled for Potilla Willis Calvert.
He assembled his home, Oak Hill, in 1860 and around a decade later gave a portion of his territory to a new barns , specifying that a station be assembled near his home. That station served as the starting point of the town, which was incorporated on March 18, 1871. The barns station and postal service long favored the shorter Calvert, but the Board on Geographic Names reversed its earlier decision in 1957 and switched to the longer form. During the Ohio River flood of 1937, Calvert City's company precinct and much of the residentiary region was severely damaged by floodwaters.
In the 1940s, the assembly of close-by Kentucky Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority brought plentiful electric power that led to many industrialized plants, mostly chemical manufacturers, to locate between the town/city and the Tennessee River.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.9 square miles (36.1 km ), of which 13.9 square miles (35.9 km ) is territory and 0.1 square mile (0.1 km ) (0.36%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,701 citizens , 1,141 homeholds, and 787 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 99.00% White, 0.26% Native American, 0.07% Asian, 0.04% from other competitions, and 0.63% from two or more competitions.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $41,107, and the median income for a family was $48,098.
The per capita income for the town/city was $22,473.
About 4.5% of families and 6.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 7.1% of those under age 18 and 10.3% of those age 65 or over.
Calvert City has 16 industrialized plants that are a key origin of employment for Western Kentucky.
Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park Calvert City has a mayor-council form of government, as allowed by its standing as a home rule-class town/city under Kentucky's fitness of small-town government classification. While Marshall county had been dry since 1938, on July 28, 2015 the county voted by a margin of 6431 to 6229 to permit the sale of both packaged liquor and drink sales.
Currently, Calvert City is the only town/city in the county that also permits the sale of alcohol on Sunday. It was established in 1985 and is the journal of record for the City of Calvert.
Calvert City is a core for surface transportation.
The town/city is the northern end of the Julian M.
The town/city is skirted on the south by Interstate 24, linking Calvert City to Nashville and St.
The town/city has rail access through the Paducah and Louisville Railway chief line and is a commercial port on the Tennessee River. Historical marker, 26 Aspen St., Calvert City, Ky.
"Summary and Reference Guide to House Bill 331 City Classification Reform" (PDF).
Kentucky League of Cities.
Commonwealth of Kentucky.
"Calvert City, Kentucky".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Economic Development in Calvert City, Ky".
"Kentucky Secretary of State Cities Database".
The Lake News website.
"Calvert City Transportation".
Municipalities and communities of Marshall County, Kentucky, United States Cities Benton Calvert City Hardin
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