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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1930 | 1735 | 3 | ||||||
| 1940 | 1841 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | 1903 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 2070 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 3212 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 3266 | 2 | ||||||
| 2000 | 3472 | 25 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 | 3269 | 367 | 62 | 105 | 87 | 96 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
According to a woman whose father grew up in this town in the 1940s, “He remembered a sign at the edge of town that said, “Sun go down, nigger out of town.” He remembers African Americans coming into town to work, but never living there.”