Radcliff, Kentucky City of Radcliff Location of Radcliff, Kentucky Location of Radcliff, Kentucky Radcliff is a home rule-class town/city in Hardin County, Kentucky, in the United States.
Army base Fort Knox, and by the close-by city of Elizabethtown.
Radcliff's populace previously fluctuated greatly depending on the deployments of the units at the base, but the BRAC reorganization of 2005, and the quartering of the U.S.
Radcliff is positioned at 37 49 48 N 85 56 44 W (37.829918, -85.945541). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.5 square miles (30 km2), of which 11.5 square miles (30 km2) is territory and 0.09% is water.
The unincorporated improve of Rogersville, titled for a small-town family, extends beside Radcliff along US 31 - W and KY 447 and is usually considered a part of Radcliff. The City of Radcliff has a populace of approximately 22,000 people.
Mc - Cullum titled the new improve after Major William Radcliffe, head of the Quartermaster Corps at the newly established Camp Henry Knox.
The next momentous step in Radcliff's history took place amid the 1930s when Fort Knox period and dislocated the suburbs of Stithton and New Stithton, causing various inhabitants and businesses of those communities to move to Radcliff.
During World War II, thousands of soldiers trained at Fort Knox and spent their leisure hours at the USO in Radcliff.
The Radcliff Civic Club was also organized that year, with the town/city incorporated in March 1956 as a 6th-class city.
The populace growth of Radcliff over the last 50 years is due to the transient military population, and trends are showing a plateau and decline.
At one time, Radcliff was larger than Elizabethtown, but that was short-lived after the 2000 Enumeration and more so after the BRAC transformation in the latter part of the twenty-first century.
Former Kentucky state representative Mike Weaver was propel mayor in 2014 and took office in 2015 for a four-year term.
City Council members Barbara Baker, Stan Holmes, Edward L Palmer, TW Shortt, Kim Thompson and Chris Yates were also propel in 2014 and took office in 2015, each for a two-year term.
In 2016, all incumbent town/city council members filed for reelection except TW Shortt, who filed for the office of Kentucky State Representative for the 10th District (Hancock, Breckinridge and part of Hardin Counties).
November 8, 2016 general election for Radcliff City Council ended with all current council members being reelected except for TW Shortt, who decided to seek a seat as a Kentucky State Representative.
Radcliff improve leader and company woman, Tanya Seabrooks, was propel to fill the seat vacated by Shortt.
As of the census of 2000, there were 21,961 citizens , 8,487 homeholds, and 5,856 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.1% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 32.6% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $35,763, and the median income for a family was $41,260.
Radcliff has two enhance secondary schools inside its town/city limits.
Most high-schoolers in the town/city attend North Hardin High School, with some zoned to attend John Hardin High School (which is in a portion of the town/city served by the Elizabethtown postal service). There are also: North Park Elementary, Woodland Elementary, Meadowview Elementary, North Middle School, Radcliff Elementary and the all-grades North Hardin Christian School private school run by Radcliff's Fellowship Independent Baptist Church.
"City of Radcliff Comprehensive Plan 2003: Element Seven, Community Facilities" (PDF).
Public Works Department, City of Radcliff, Kentucky.
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