Madisonville, Kentucky Madisonville, Kentucky Hopkins County Courthouse in Madisonville Hopkins County Courthouse in Madisonville Location in the state of Kentucky Location in the state of Kentucky County Hopkins Madisonville is a home rule-class town/city in and the governmental center of county of Hopkins County, Kentucky, United States, positioned along the Pennyrile Parkway in the state's Western Coal Fields region.
Madisonville is a commercial center of the region and is home to Madisonville Community College.
Madisonville was established in 1807 and titled for Secretary of State James Madison. It was titled the seat of Hopkins County in 1808 and formally incorporated in 1810. Hopkins County and Madisonville were divided by the Civil War.
Farming was the primary occupation in Hopkins County for most of the 1800s, with tobacco the dominant crop.
Hopkins County and much of the rest of state of Kentucky were affected.
Madisonville is positioned at 37 19 58 N 87 30 8 W (37.332660, -87.502190), approximately 125 miles southwest of Louisville.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.5 square miles (48 km2), of which 17.8 square miles (46 km2) is territory and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2) (3.94%) is water.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Madisonville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.9% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 23.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Because of its locale near meaningful roadways, Madisonville is a dominant manufacturing core for Kentucky.
GE Aviation, Jennmar, International Automotive Components Group (IAC), Ahlstrom, Land O' Frost, Carhartt Cutting in Madisonville, Carhartt RCV Distribution in close-by Hanson, Kentucky and other corporations have operations in the area.
RMC, now owned by Baptist Healthcare System and directed as Baptist Health Madisonville is a 410-bed hospital that offers services typically found in larger metros/cities (such as life flight, women's community centers, and a elected cancer center).
Madisonville is a wet town/city in the county of Hopkins County; making it a moist county, one of only sixteen in the state. Madisonville is the governmental center of county of Hopkins County.
Government operations for the town/city are based out of a several buildings including a government building on Center Street and the Madisonville City Hall on Main Street.
Madisonville, Kentucky University of Kentucky Madisonville and most of Hopkins County are in the Hopkins County School District. Hopkins County Schools operate eight elementary school, four middle school, and two high school sub-districts.
Elementary schools: Grapevine Elementary, West Broadway Elementary, Pride Avenue Elementary, Hanson Elementary, Earlington Elementary, Jesse Stuart Elementary, Southside Elementary, and West Hopkins School.
Middle schools: Browning Springs Middle School, South Hopkins Middle School, West Hopkins School, and James Madison Middle School.
High schools: Hopkins County Central High School and Madisonville North Hopkins High School.
Madisonville is also home to Madisonville Community College, which merged with Madisonville Technical College in 2001.
The college is a member of the sixteen-college Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS).
The school is also affiliated with Murray State University, Lindsey Wilson College, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Louisville.
Madisonville is bisected laterally by the Pennyrile Parkway: a north-south corridor that joins to I-24 just south Hopkinsville with Henderson and feeds into US 41 - A at Hopkinsville, dominant to I-24 east.
The Western Kentucky Parkway is a several miles south of the town.
The Western Kentucky Parkway's westbound lanes feed into I-24 west; the eastbound lanes feed into Blue Grass Parkway (via I-65 north) at Elizabethtown.
The Western Kentucky Parkway also intersects I-65, which feeds into Bowling Green to the south and the Natcher Parkway.
In addition to trucking routes, CSX Transportation and Paducah & Louisville Railway run through Madisonville.
The 2010 zombie film Hell is Full was filmed largely in Madisonville, starring small-town actors. Kentucky League of Cities.
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