Kentucky
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1950s
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 1021 | 28 | ||||||
| 1940 | 1906 | 23 | ||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 3074 | 4 | ||||||
| 1970 | 3652 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 3899 | 7 | ||||||
| 2000 | 4197 | 26 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A witness writes that Benton, SE of Paducah, is said to be sundown.
According to a local professor, Benton “has few if any blacks even today–and a reputation and history as very anti-black. It’s in Marshall County which I think has fewer than 10 African Americans–an increase since I moved here. There was a “Rosewood” type incident at Birmingham, Kentucky around 1907 in Marshall County. (Birmingham is now under Kentucky Lake, so you won’t find it on current maps.)