LaFayette,Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "LaFayette, Kentucky". Accessed 1 August 2013. also informally written as La Fayette and Lafayette, is a home rule-class city in

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, in the United States. The population was 165 at the

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. LaFayette is part of the Clarksville, Tennessee metropolitan area.

History

LaFayette was first settled in the late 1810s, and by 1820 was home to a dry goods and grocery store.Kentucky Historical Society
Lafayette Methodist Church
National Register of Historic Places inventory form, Spring 1977. It was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1836. The city was named in honor of Revolutionary War hero the

Marquis de Lafayette Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (, ), was a French aristocrat, freemason and military officer who fought in the American Revolutio ...

. LaFayette is home to an antebellum church, the Lafayette Methodist Church. Built in 1852 by Dutch-born builder Daniel Umbenhour, the church is now listed on the

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Geography

LaFayette is located along Kentucky Route 107 in the southwestern corner of Christian County, southwest of Hopkinsville, the Christian County seat, and north of the

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state line. The town lies just north of the US Army's

Fort Campbell Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located astride the Kentucky–Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee (post address is located in Kentucky). Fort Campbell is home to the 101st Airborne Divi ...

. According to the

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, the town has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 193 people, 75 households, and 51 families residing in the town. The

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was 718.7 people per square mile (276.0/km). There were 83 housing units at an average density of 309.1 per square mile (118.7/km). The racial makeup of the town was 89.12%

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, 5.70%

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, 0.52% Native American or Alaska Native, 1.55% Asian, 1.04% from

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, and 2.07% from

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. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 1.55% of the population. There were 75 households, out of which 33.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.0% were married couples living together, 2.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.0% were non-families. 29.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.22. The age distribution was 29.0% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 34.7% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64, and 9.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 116.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 124.6 males. The median income for a household in the town was $28,906, and the median income for a family was $30,250. Males had a median income of $25,000 versus $29,375 for females. The

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for the town was $11,679. About 9.8% of families and 13.9% of the population were below the

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, including 13.3% of those under the age of eighteen and 40.0% of those 65 or over.

References

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* {{authority control Cities in Christian County, Kentucky Cities in Kentucky Clarksville metropolitan area 1810s establishments in Kentucky