Garrison is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

in Lewis County,

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, United States. Its population was 731 as of the 2020 census. Garrison has a

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with ZIP code 41141, which opened on February 26, 1886. The community is located along the

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and

Kentucky Route 8 Kentucky Route 8 is a east–west state highway divided into two distinct segments across northern Kentucky. The western terminus of the route is at KY 237 near Francisville, Kentucky, Francisville. The eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 2 ...

Geography

According to the

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, the community has an area of ; of its area is land, and is water.

Demographics

Notable people

Thomas Massie Thomas Harold Massie (born January 13, 1971) is an American politician and engineer. A member of the Republican Party, Massie has been the United States representative for Kentucky's 4th congressional district since 2012. The district covers ...

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References

Unincorporated communities in Lewis County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky Census-designated places in Lewis County, Kentucky Census-designated places in Kentucky Kentucky populated places on the Ohio River {{LewisCountyKY-geo-stub