Paintsville, Kentucky City of Paintsville Location of Paintsville, Kentucky Location of Paintsville, Kentucky Detailed map of Paintsville Detailed map of Paintsville Paintsville (local /pe ntsv l/) is a home rule-class town/city along Paint Creek in Johnson County, Kentucky, in the United States.
Dalton Ray Chandler II in 1812 and laid out as the town of Paint Lick Station in 1826. The town was formally established under that name in 1834, although the postal service was probably titled Paint Creek. It was incorporated as a town/city under its present name of Paintsville in 1843, the same year it became the seat of Johnson County.
During the early Twentieth Century, Paintsville began to transform into a undivided American city.
In 1912, Paintsville received electricity and natural gas services.
In 1926, Paintsville inhabitants received enhance water and the city's fire department was established. Since the 1990s, Paintsville has seen a steady loss of populace (4,345 in 1990 to 3,459 in 2010), in part due to a downturn in the economy, and the loss of coal jobs. Even with this, there have been some company developments in the past several years, as well as burgeoning tourist interest.
Paintsville has been in the process of revitalizing the downtown region in order to rejuvenate its initial company district.
On June 9, 2009, Paintsville became a "wet" town/city for the first time since March 14, 1945, permitting stores positioned inside the town/city limits to sell alcoholic beverages. The Levisa Fork River in Paintsville Paintsville is positioned at 37 48 41 N 82 48 24 W (37.811324, -82.806780) in the bottomland at the confluence of Paint Creek and the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River amid the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in the Cumberland Plateau.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.3 square miles (14 km2), all of it land.
Beginning in 1976, Paintsville's chief shopping precinct has gradually moved from Main Street to Mayo Plaza, which is northwest of downtown.
Today, downtown mostly serves as Paintsville's financial district.
But, in May 2009 Paintsville received a grant to redevelop Main Street in hopes of making it one of the city's prominent shopping districts again.
Paintsville is positioned in a transition region between a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Dfa) and a humid continental climate (Koppen Cfa). Summers are hot and humid with incessant harsh storms.
July is the warmest month, with an average high 89 F (32 C) and an average low of 66 F (19 C).
January is the coldest month with an average high of 44 F (7 C) and an average low of 24 F (-4 C).
Climate data for Paintsville, Kentucky Crime Paintsville Kentucky United States Paintsville has a mayor-council form of government. Paintsville's current mayor/city executive is Bill Mike Runyon, who was appointed in 2016.
The representative body of the town/city of Paintsville is the town/city council.
Paintsville High School The Paintsville Independent School District includes Paintsville High School (7th-12th) and Paintsville Elementary School.
Paintsville Independent has persistently had college attendance rates between 95% to 100% since 2008. In 2012, the precinct had a composite ACT score of 22.7. It was the 4th highest composite ACT score out of the 169 school districts in the state of Kentucky. Johnson County Schools also operates three schools inside the town/city of Paintsville: Johnson Central High School, Johnson County Middle School (Kentucky), and Central Elementary School.
Johnson Central High School has won five global Future Problem Solving (FPS) titles while the middle school has won 10 Governor's Cup state titles along with three global FPS titles. Paintsville is also home to the Our Lady of the Mountains School.
Big Sandy Community and Technical College operates a ground in Paintsville that offers various two-year degrees in various fields of study. Paintsville First National Bank The Kentucky Apple Festival has been held in Paintsville annually since 1962.
Paintsville also holds a Spring Fling on Main Street in May. 23 Country Music Highway Museum; Mayo Mansion; and Mayo Memorial United Methodist Church (Paintsville, Kentucky) 23 County Music Highway Museum gives knowledge on the nation music entertainers who interval up near U.S.
Main article: Paintsville Country Club The Paintsville Country Club includes an 18-hole golf course established on September 27, 1929, making it one of the earliest golf courses in Eastern Kentucky. The nation club was assembled in 1930 by the WPA and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Paintsville Recreation Center contains a volleyball court, a basketball court, a walking track, and a playground. Main article: The Paintsville Herald The Paintsville Herald is a bi-weekly journal printed on Wednesday and Friday with a circulation of about 5,200 copies.
The journal serves Paintsville and the encircling area. The hospital has a full-service emergency room with a pediatric trauma room, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, a special Birthing Room, and full service surgical services, including a da - Vinci Si robotic fitness providing state of the art laparoscopic surgery to the greater Paintsville region. Route 23 serves as the bypass for Paintsville.
The four-lane divided highway links Paintsville to Interstate 64 to the north and U.S.
Route 460 links Paintsville to the Bert T.
Kentucky Route 40 forms both Euclid Avenue and Third Street in Paintsville.
Kentucky Route 321, locally known as South Mayo Trail, serves as the city's chief company route and passes through Mayo Plaza.
Located southeast of Paintsville in neighboring Martin County is Big Sandy Regional Airport.
Paintsville was one of the three recording locations for the 2010 drama film, Passenger Pigeons. ESPN's "The Season: Bluegrass Basketball" featured Paintsville and Johnson Central as one of the states most heated rivalries where a basketball game is filmed at Paintsville when the two met in regular season match-up.
Jim Ford, singer/songwriter, born in Paintsville on August 23, 1941. Ovie Scurlock, born in Paintsville on November 11, 1918, former jockey in horse racing.
Richard Scott Thomas, born in Paintsville on December 3, 1925, American dancer, educator, and co-founder of the New York School of Ballet.
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