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Location of Central City inside Kentucky.

Incorporated Central City, 1882 Central City is a home rule-class town/city in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, in the United States.

It is also the biggest city in the county and the principal improve in the Central City Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Muhlenberg County.

The site of present-day Central City was originally known as Morehead's Horse Mill after small-town resident Charles S.

The same year, however, the du Pont's Central Coal and Iron Company began operation in the region and became so vital to the small-town economy that the town/city was reincorporated in 1882 as Central City. Recessions replaced the E&P and the O&R with a procession of different companies, including the Owensboro and Nashville Railway, but the two rights of way always remained in separate hands, keeping Central City an meaningful county-wide core for the Illinois Central and the L&N, with train yards, roundhouses, and even an elevated rail station.

The expansion of automotive traffic in the early 20th century reduced some of Central City's importance, but it continues to service mainline freight traffic on the Paducah and Louisville Railway and trunk-line service for CSX from Madisonville to the Paradise Fossil Plant, minutes south of the city.

Central City is the only town/city in Muhlenberg County that allows liquor to be sold by package stores and by the drink in restaurants seating at least 100 persons.

Central City is positioned at 37 17 42 N 87 07 43 W (37.294989, -87.128622). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.2 square miles (13 km2), all land.

Terrain in Central City is rolling hills to steep bluffs along the northern boundaries of the town/city along the Green River.

Most of Central City has a sandstone bedrock with #9 bituminous coal underlying the bedrock.

Central City has a number of old underground coal mine shafts that still crisscross the city.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 20.1% under the age of 18, 10.6% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 16.3% who were 65 years of age or older.

Central City is home to Central City Elementary School.

Central City Elementary School is a feeder school for Muhlenberg North Middle School which, in turn, feeds Muhlenberg County High School.

Central City is also home to the Muhlenberg Campus of Madisonville Community College, instead of in 2001.

WQXQ FM 101.9, 100,000 watt station, owned and directed by Andy Anderson Corporation, licensed to Central City where the chief studio is, fortress and transmitter positioned in Pleasant Ridge, (Daviess County), Kentucky.

A number of county-wide airways broadcasts have Radio repeater's positioned in Central City.

Leader-News, weekly journal established in Greenville Leader, moved to Central City in the 1960s and became the "Greenville Leader-Central City News", owned and presented by the Andy Anderson Corporation.

Major employers in Central City include: Central City Elementary School On Labor Day Weekend 1988, Central City began hosting The Everly Brothers Homecoming event to raise cash for a scholarship fund for Muhlenberg County students. The Homecoming became a prominent annual event for fourteen years, before ending in 2002. Sponsored by the Central City Business & Professional Women's Club, the Hall of Fame is positioned inside the Central City Public Library, 108 E.

Central City Library hours are Monday 9 am - 7 pm; Tuesday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm ; Saturday 9 am - 1 pm.

Www.mcplib.org for more info; Central City BPW meets the second Tuesday of each month in the library meeting room at 6:00 pm - visitors are welcome.

The Muhlenberg County Rail Trail is a paved trail following an old Paducah and Louisville stockyards route between Central City and Greenville that is open to pedestrian and non-motorized vehicle traffic.

Kentucky's most extensive rail trail conversion to date, the Muhlenberg Rail Trail opened October 20, 2000 and was titled "Trail of the Month" by the Rails to Trails Conservancy in May 2004. A viewing platform and birding guide are available where the trail passes through a small-town wetland. The Muhlenberg County Rails to Trails Committee has railbanked an additional 3 miles of abandoned rail, possibly for a later extension into Mc - Lean County. a b c History of Central City, Kentucky "Summary and Reference Guide to House Bill 331 City Classification Reform" (PDF).

Kentucky League of Cities.

Trail of the Month - Muhlenberg County Rail Trail Rails to Trails Conservancy - Muhlenberg County Rail Trail Kentucky Rails to Trails Council - Muhlenberg County Rail Trail Central City Tourism City of Central City Official Website Central City Police Department Website Central City Fire Department Website Municipalities and communities of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, United States Bremen Central City Drakesboro Greenville Powderly South Carrollton

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