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Pendleton County is a
county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
located in the U.S. state of
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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,644. Its
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is Falmouth. The county was founded December 13, 1798. Pendleton County is included in the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.


History

Pendleton County was created from parts of Campbell and
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counties in 1798. The county was named after Edmund Pendleton, a longtime member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Continental Congress and chief justice of
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. Falmouth, the future county seat, began as a settlement called Forks of Licking, 1776.Hellmann, 248. Falmouth was chartered in 1793. Its name originated from the Virginians who settled there from Falmouth, Virginia. It was also in 1793 that one of the first sawmills in Kentucky was built in Falmouth. Falmouth was designated the county seat in 1799. The county courthouse was erected in 1848. During the
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, the county sent men to both armies. A Union Army recruiting camp was established in Falmouth in September 1861. Two Confederate recruiters were captured and executed by the Union Army in the Peach Grove area of northern Pendleton County. In July 1862, a number of county citizens were rounded up by Union troops during a crackdown against suspected Confederate sympathizers. In June 1863, a number of women were arrested at Demossville because they were believed to be potential spies dangerous to the
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. Falmouth was the site of a small skirmish on September 18, 1862, between twenty-eight Confederates and eleven Home Guardsmen. The city of Butler was established 1852 when the Kentucky Central Railroad was built through the area. The city was named for William O. Butler, U.S. congressman from the area, when it was incorporated on February 1, 1868.


Geography

According to the
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, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.7%) is water. The county's northeastern border with
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is formed by the
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.


Adjacent counties

* Kenton County (northwest) * Campbell County (north) * Clermont County, Ohio (northeast) * Bracken County (east) * Harrison County (south) * Grant County (west)


Demographics

As of the
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of 2000, there were 14,390 people, 5,170 households, and 3,970 families residing in the county. The
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was . There were 5,756 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 98.39%
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, 0.49%
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or
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, 0.19% Native American, 0.11% Asian, 0.01%
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, 0.35% from other races, and 0.44% from two or more races. 0.67% of the population were
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or Latino of any race. There were 5,170 households, out of which 39.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.80% were
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living together, 9.60% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.20% were non-families. 20.10% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.14. In the county, the population was spread out, with 28.40% under the age of 18, 8.50% from 18 to 24, 31.20% from 25 to 44, 21.50% from 45 to 64, and 10.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 100.30 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.90 males. The median income for a household in the county was $38,125, and the median income for a family was $42,589. Males had a median income of $31,885 versus $23,234 for females. The
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for the county was $16,551. About 9.80% of families and 11.40% of the population were below the
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, including 14.80% of those under age 18 and 11.60% of those age 65 or over.


Education

Pendleton County High School, just north of Falmouth, is the public high school. It currently is home to fewer than 1,000 students. The mascot for PCHS is the Wildcat, and the school colors are red, black and white. The school features two gyms and a 450-seat auditorium. Other schools in the county are Sharp Middle School, named for Phillip Allen Sharp, American geneticist and molecular biologist and winner of the
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in Physiology or Medicine (1993) and National Medal of Science (2004), located between Falmouth and Butler, Northern Elementary in Butler, and Southern Elementary in Falmouth.


Library

Pendleton County Public Library is located at 801 Robbins Avenue, Falmouth. The library provides public access computers with high speed internet and free wifi. The library also offers copying, a fax service, and a public meeting room that can be reserved.


Politics


Elected officials


Culture

Pendleton County is home to The Kentucky Wool Festival, Griffin Center Amphitheater, and Kincaid Regional Theatre. * Phillip Allen Sharp, who earned the
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for work that fundamentally changed scientists' understanding of the structure of
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s, is a native of Falmouth. * J. M. Lelen was pastor of St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church in Falmouth for many years in the first half of the 20th century. * Beth Broderick, actress on '' Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'' was born in Falmouth. * Nate Jones, was drafted in the 5th round, 179th overall, by the
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in the 2007 MLB Draft. He also played for the Cincinnati Reds, the
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, and the
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before retiring. * Samuel Thomas Hauser, born in Falmouth, was the first resident to become territorial governor of Montana and the seventh territorial governor to that date * John Merritt coached at Jackson State University from 1953 to 1962 and then at Tennessee State from 1962 through the remainder of his coaching career.


Communities


Cities

* Butler * Falmouth (county seat)


Unincorporated community

* DeMossville


See also

* Bethel Cemetery and Church, a historic frame church 5 miles north of Falmouth * Fryer House, an 1811 stone house, home of the Pendleton County Historical Society * National Register of Historic Places listings in Pendleton County, Kentucky


References


External links

* * Pendleton County Historical Images and Documents
Northern Kentucky Views

Pendleton County Genealogy - a KYGenWeb site
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