Richmond, Kentucky Richmond, Kentucky Madison County courthouse, Richmond, with flags at half-staff with respect to Veterans Day (2007).
Madison County courthouse, Richmond, with flags at half-staff with respect to Veterans Day (2007).
Location of Richmond, Kentucky Location of Richmond, Kentucky Richmond is a home rule-class town/city in and the governmental center of county of Madison County, Kentucky, United States. It is titled after Richmond, Virginia, and is the home of Eastern Kentucky University.
The populace was 33,533 in 2015. Richmond is the third-largest town/city in the Bluegrass region (after Louisville and Lexington) and the state's sixth-largest city.
Richmond serves as the center for work and shopping for south-central Kentucky.
Richmond is the principal town/city of the Richmond Berea Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Madison and Rockcastle counties.
The City of Richmond was established in 1798 by Colonel John Miller from Virginia, a British American who had served with the rebels in the Revolutionary War.
According to tradition, Miller was thriving to the region by the good spring water and friendly Native Americans. That year, the Kentucky council allowed moving the governmental center of county from Milford to territory owned by Colonel Miller.
On July 4, 1798, the new town was titled Richmond with respect to Miller's Virginia birthplace. Richmond was incorporated in 1809. Kentucky was a border state amid the Civil War and stayed in the Union.
In 1906, Eastern Kentucky State Normal School was established in Richmond to train teachers.
As of 2009, Richmond was Kentucky's seventh-largest city, moving up four places from ranking in the 2000 census as Kentucky's eleventh-largest city. The Kentucky River comprises the northern border of Madison County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 19.2 square miles (50 km2), of which 19.1 square miles (49 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2)(0.73%) is water.
Richmond is served by the Madison County Public School System. Model Laboratory School (Associated with Eastern Kentucky University) Madison Central High School (Kentucky) Eastern Kentucky University The Eastern Progress is a weekly student printed announcement of Eastern Kentucky University view of Lake Reba in Richmond, Kentucky from the fishing dock.
The majority of the city's high rises are positioned on the ground of Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), which include the 20-story Commonwealth Hall, the 16-story Keene Hall, the 13-story Telford Hall, and two 12-story buildings, Todd and Dupree halls.
Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734-September 26, 1820), born in Birdsboro, PA, he was an American pioneer who established Fort Boonesborough, in Madison County Kentucky along the Kentucky River Kit Carson, pioneer frontiersman, born near Richmond in Madison County, Kentucky, but raised in Franklin, Missouri Leigh Ann Hester of the Kentucky Army National Guard, first woman in United States military history to be cited for valor in close quarters combat, for action near Salman Pak, Iraq on March 20, 2005; she is the first woman to receive the Silver Star Medal for valor in combat Mc - Creary, United States Senator and two-term Governor of Kentucky Samuel Hanson Stone, Kentucky politician, born near Richmond Keen Johnson, editor of the Richmond Daily Register (1925 39); Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1935 39); Governor of Kentucky (1939 43); Undersecretary of Labor (1946 47); longtime resident of the region Ken Upchurch, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Wayne County; born in Richmond in 1969 Chamber of Commerce website, "City History", retrieved August 28, 2009.
"This Day in History: August 30, 1862- The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky," retrieved August 28, 2009.
Eastern Kentucky University website, "About Eastern Kentucky University", retrieved August 28, 2009 US Census, "Kentucky by Place", retrieved July 28, 2010 "Richmond, Kentucky Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
Madison County Schools website, retrieved August 28,2 009.
"Eastern Kentucky University".
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