Carrsville is a home rule-class city beside the

Ohio River The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illino ...

in Livingston County,

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, in the United States. The population was 50 at the 2010 census, declining from 64 as of 2000. It is part of the

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, KY- IL Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is situated just west of the junction of where Buck Creek empties into the Ohio River.

Geography

Carrsville is located in northern Livingston County at (37.398063, -88.375113). To the north, across the Ohio River, is

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. The nearest river crossing is the

Cave-In-Rock Ferry The Cave-In-Rock Ferry is one of four passenger ferry services that cross the Ohio River into the U.S. state of Kentucky. It connects Illinois Route 1 in Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois to Kentucky Route 91, 10.6 miles north of Marion, K ...

upstream (east). The nearest bridges over the Ohio are the

Shawneetown Bridge The Earle C. Clements Bridge, commonly known as the Shawneetown Bridge, is a cantilever truss bridge carrying Kentucky Route 56 and Illinois Route 13 across the Ohio River. Clements was a former governor of Kentucky. The bridge connects Old Shaw ...

upriver at

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, and the

Brookport Bridge The Brookport Bridge (officially the Irvin S. Cobb Bridge) is a ten-span, steel deck (grate), narrow two-lane truss bridge that carries U.S. Route 45 (US 45) across the Ohio River in the U.S. states of Illinois and Kentucky. It connects ...

downriver at

. Kentucky Route 135 passes through Carrsville, leading east to

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near the Cave-In-Rock Ferry, and south to U.S. Route 60 at Burna. According to the

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, Carrsville has a total area of , all land.

Name

Carrsville was named for Billy Karr, who laid out the town .

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 64 people, 35 households, and 17 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 51 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 96.88%

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, and 3.12% from two or more races. There were 35 households, out of which 11.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.0% were

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living together, 2.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 51.4% were non-families. 48.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.83 and the average family size was 2.53. In the city, the population was spread out, with 14.1% under the age of 18, 3.1% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 29.7% from 45 to 64, and 25.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females, there were 146.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 129.2 males. The median income for a household in the city was $21,500, and the median income for a family was $26,250. Males had a median income of $41,250 versus $13,750 for females. The

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for the city was $15,289. There were 12.5% of families and 9.3% of the population living below the

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, including no under eighteens and 31.3% of those over 64.

References

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