Grand Rivers, Kentucky Grand Rivers, Kentucky Downtown Grand Rivers, Kentucky Downtown Grand Rivers, Kentucky Location of Grand Rivers, Kentucky Location of Grand Rivers, Kentucky Named for the close-by Cumberland, Tennessee, and Ohio rivers Boston financier Thomas Lawson's residence in Grand Rivers, when he was promoting the town as the next great steel-making center, to rival Pittsburgh and Birmingham.
Grand Rivers is a home rule-class town/city in Livingston County, Kentucky, in the United States.
Grand Rivers is positioned at 37 0 17 N 88 13 54 W (37.004732, -88.231773). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), of which 1.8 square miles (4.8 km ) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (2.13%) is water.
The town was formerly positioned at the narrowest point between the Cumberland River and the Tennessee.
Both were dammed and artificial lakes created by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the early 20th century; the town now lies on an isthmus of territory between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley.
Grand Rivers may have originally been known as Narrows from its position between the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.
(The enterprise floundered inside a several years.) The name refers the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers which previously met near the site, before to the TVA's creation of Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 16.6% under the age of 18, 5.2% from 18 to 24, 21.3% from 25 to 44, 35.9% from 45 to 64, and 21.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $33,250, and the median income for a family was $42,917.
About 8.7% of families and 10.1% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 14.3% of those under age 18 and 9.0% of those age 65 or over.
"Grand Rivers, Kentucky".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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Cities in Kentucky - Cities in Livingston County, Kentucky - Paducah micropolitan region - Populated places on the Tennessee River
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