Paris, Kentucky Explained

Official Name:Paris, Kentucky
Settlement Type:City
Named For:Paris, France
Motto:"Thoroughbred Capital of the World"[1]
Mapsize:250px
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Kentucky
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Bourbon
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Johnny Plummer[2] [3]
Established Title:Established
Established Date:1789[4]
Established Title2:Incorporated
Established Date2:1839
Established Title3:Reincorporated
Established Date3:1890
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Footnotes:[5]
Area Total Km2:20.72
Area Land Km2:20.58
Area Water Km2:0.13
Area Total Sq Mi:8.00
Area Land Sq Mi:7.95
Area Water Sq Mi:0.05
Population As Of:2020
Population Total:10171
Population Density Km2:494.18
Population Density Sq Mi:1279.85
Timezone:Eastern (EST)
Utc Offset:-5
Timezone Dst:EDT
Utc Offset Dst:-4
Elevation Ft:843
Coordinates:38.2064°N -84.2578°W
Postal Code Type:ZIP codes
Postal Code:40361-40362
Area Code:859
Blank Name:FIPS code
Blank1 Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank1 Info:2404473
Pop Est As Of:2022
Pop Est Footnotes:[6]
Population Est:10075

Paris is a home rule-class city in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and the county seat.[7] It lies northeast of Lexington on the Stoner Fork of the Licking River. It is part of the Lexington–Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2020, it had a population of 10,171.[8]

History

Joseph Houston settled a station in the area in 1776, but was forced to relocate due to prior land grants. In 1786, Lawrence Protzman purchased the area of present-day Paris from its owners, platted for a town, and offered land for public buildings in exchange for the Virginia legislature making the settlement the seat of the newly formed Bourbon County. In 1789, the town was formally established as Hopewell after Hopewell, New Jersey, his hometown. The next year, it was renamed Paris after the French capital to match its county and honor the French assistance during the American Revolution.

Among the early settlers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries were French refugees who had fled the excesses of their own revolution. One Frenchman was noted in a 19th-century state history as having come from Calcutta, via Bengal, and settled here as a schoolteacher.[9]

The post office was briefly known as Bourbontown or Bourbonton in the early 19th century, but there is no evidence that this name was ever formally applied to the town itself.[10] It was incorporated as Paris in 1839 and again in 1890.[4]

African American students attended Paris Colored High School.[11] Paris is the "sister city" of Lamotte-Beuvron in France.[12]

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.5km2, of which 15.4sqkm is land and 0.1sqkm, or 0.52%, is water.[8]

Demographics

As of the census[13] of 2000, there were 9,183 people, 3,857 households, and 2,487 families residing in the city. The population density was 1351.2/mi2. There were 4,222 housing units at an average density of 621.2/mi2. The racial makeup of the city was 84.23% White, 12.71% African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 1.35% from other races, and 1.38% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.62% of the population.

There were 3,857 households, out of which 31.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.8% were married couples living together, 16.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.5% were non-families. 31.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the average family size was 2.90.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 25.3% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 88.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.7 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $30,872, and the median income for a family was $37,358. Males had a median income of $29,275 versus $21,285 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,645. About 17.5% of families and 17.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.2% of those under age 18 and 15.9% of those age 65 or over.

Arts and culture

Between 2006 and 2008, fifteen buildings were renovated in the downtown.[14]

Artistic and cultural sites and events include:

Paris has a public library, the Paris-Bourbon County Library.[19]

Education

Local schools in includes, Paris High School (in the Paris Independent Schools district), and Bourbon County High School (in the Bourbon County Schools district).

Notable people

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The City of Paris. City of Paris. November 21, 2013.
  2. Web site: County by County Results . wkyt.com . . November 6, 2018 . November 6, 2018 . January 5, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190105200906/https://www.wkyt.com/elections/local?configID=1394 . dead .
  3. Web site: City of Paris - Mayor. www.paris.ky.gov. May 27, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150528012726/http://www.paris.ky.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=545. May 28, 2015.
  4. Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Paris, Kentucky". Accessed 24 September 2013.
  5. Web site: 2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files. United States Census Bureau. March 18, 2022.
  6. Web site: Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places in Kentucky: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2022. United States Census Bureau. May 26, 2023.
  7. Web site: Find a County. 2011-06-07. National Association of Counties.
  8. Web site: Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Paris city, Kentucky. https://archive.today/20200212183128/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US2159196. dead. February 12, 2020. U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. November 21, 2013.
  9. https://books.google.com/books?id=0dc_AAAAYAAJ&dq=Origin+of+name+of+Bengal%2C+KY&pg=PA294 William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State
  10. Rennick, Robert. Kentucky Place Names, p. 226. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 1 August 2013.
  11. Book: Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers . 1901 . U.S. Government Printing Office . en.
  12. Web site: Paris, KY - Sister City. paris.ky.gov. 2 April 2018.
  13. Web site: U.S. Census website. United States Census Bureau. 2008-01-31.
  14. Note: Paris Main Street manager and tourism director Linda Stubblefield quoted in a Chevy Chaser Magazine article (October 2008).http://www.smileypete.com
  15. http://www.visitmyparisky.com/main_street/ArtWalk.html Paris, Kentucky's tourism site
  16. http://stevewalton.name/Photos.html Photos of Paris, Kentucky
  17. Web site: parisartwalk - Profile. parisartwalk.livejournal.com. 2 April 2018.
  18. Web site: Custom 404 Page. www.kentuckytourism.com. 2 April 2018. July 13, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110713144648/http://www.kentuckytourism.com/Listing/7113/. dead.
  19. Web site: Kentucky Public Library Directory . https://web.archive.org/web/20190111202017/https://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/pages/librarydirectory.aspx . dead . 11 January 2019 . Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives . 5 June 2019.
  20. Web site: Illinois Governor Joseph Duncan . National Governors Association . February 11, 2017.
  21. Web site: Illinois Governor William Lee Davidson Ewing . National Governors Association . February 11, 2017.
  22. Web site: Silvana Gallardo, actress who had been living in Paris, Ky., dies at age 58. kentucky.com. 2 April 2018. June 1, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120601000012/http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/05/2016269/silvana-gallardo-actress-who-had.html. dead.
  23. Book: Monks . Leander John . Courts and lawyers of Indiana . 1916 . Federal Publishing Company . Indianapolis .
  24. Web site: An American Inventor. Garrett A. Morgan Technology and Transportation Futures Program. Federal Highway Administration. December 6, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120115032510/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/education/gamorgan.htm. January 15, 2012. dead.
  25. Web site: Robynson, Bernie Haynes. (b. Paris, KY, 1900; active New York, NY, 1954) . https://wayback.archive-it.org/4472/20210305015957/http://216.197.120.164/artistbibliog.cfm?id=1551 . March 5, 2021 . African American Visual Artist Database (AAVAD).
  26. Book: Hills, Patricia . Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence . 2019-01-05 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-30550-2 . 172 . en.
  27. News: 1953-03-14 . Former Paris Boy Is Cage Star At Duquesne . 20 . The Paducah Sun . 2023-02-07.
  28. Web site: May 23, 2020 . Paris Western star, Duquesne All-American Jim Tucker has died . 2023-02-07 . WKYT . en.
  29. Book: Kleber, John E. . The Kentucky Encyclopedia . 2014-10-17 . . 978-0-8131-5901-0 . 105 . en.

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