Lyon County, Kentucky Basics:


Lyon County Kentucky - Government Site

Population: 8,449
Area: 214 square miles
County seat: Eddyville
Area code(s) in use: 270
Time zone: CST
High school graduate or higher: 84.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 14.0%
Median household income: $38,414
Persons in poverty: 16.0%
Home ownership rate: 78.9%
Mean travel time to work: 22.9 minutes

Adjacent counties:
Caldwell  Crittenden  Livingston  Marshall  Trigg  

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Map of the Lyon County area


Our detail map of Lyon County shows the Lyon County, Kentucky boundary lines and other interesting items.

Places in Lyon County, Kentucky

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Ingram Shoals

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Fredonia Valley

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Carmack Bay, Champion Springs Cove, Clay Bay, Crab Bay, Cravens Bay, Davenport Bay, Demumbers Bay, Duncan Bay, Fulton Creek, Honker Bay, Mammoth Furnace Bay, Molloy Bay, Pisgah Bay, Smith Bay, Willow Bay

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Eddyville Fire Department, Kuttawa Fire Department, Lyon County Ambulance Service, Lyon County Fire District 1 Sunnyside, Lyon County Fire District 2 Suwannee

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Barkley Canal

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Barnett Cemetery, Bethlehem Cemetery, Bonner Cemetery, Chestnut Oak Cemetery, Cobb Cemetery, Confederate Cemetery, Crab Creek Cemetery, Dixon Cemetery, Dry Fork Cemetery, Eddyville Cemetery, Freeman-Cash Cemetery, Gray Cemetery, Gray Cemetery, Henderson Chapel Cemetery, Hildreth Cemetery, Hildreth Cemetery, Hopewell Cemetery, Lady Cemetery, Newby Cemetery, Oliver Cemetery, Oliver Cemetery, Parker Cemetery, Peek Cemetery, Piercy Cemetery, Providence Cemetery, Rolling Hills Cemetery, Rolling Hills Cemetery, Saint Stevens Cemetery, Steinbaugh Cemetery

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Bethany Missionary Baptist Church, Chestnut Grove Church, Doom Chapel, Elm Grove Church, Friendship Church, Glenns Chapel Methodist Church, Hebron Church, Hopewell Church, Liberty Church, Macedonia Church, Mount Pleasant Church, Mount Zion Church, New Bethel Church, Pleasant Hill Church, Woodson Chapel

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Money Cliff

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Barkley Dam

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Cave Pond (historical), Lake Clough

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Hillman Ferry Camping Area, Holiday Hills Camp, Kentucky State Penitentiary Farm, Mont, Sky Pilot Harbor, State Penal Farm, Tinsley Creek Bay

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Andrew Jackson Smith Historical Marker, Birmingham Ferry Recreation Area, Cannon Spring Public Use Area, Demumbers Point Recreation Area, Doctor George M Huggans Historical Marker, Eddy Creek Recreational Area, Eddyville Furnace Historical Marker, Fulton Furnace Historical Marker, Governor Keen Johnson Historical Marker, Kelly Furnace Historical Marker, Kentucky Woodlands National Wildlife Refuge, Last Skirmish of the Civil War Historical Marker, Lyon County Historical Marker, Mammoth Furnace Historical Marker, Matthew Lyon Grave Historical Marker, Mineral Mound Historical Marker, New Union Forge Historical Marker, Pisgah Point Recreation Area, Suwanee Furnace Historical Marker, Vista Ridge Park, William Kellys Kettle Historical Marker

  Populated Places     show all on map

Antioch (historical), Buena Vista Estates, Carmack, Cedar Grove (historical), Commerce Landing, Confederate, Cross Road, Dewey (historical), Dryden Estates, Eddy Bay, Eddyville, Eden Bay, Fairview, Greenacres, Indian Hills, Kuttawa, Lamasco, Palisades, Paradise Hills, Renaldo (historical), Rolling Mill (historical), Saratoga, Suwanee, Twin Lakes, Wildwood Hills

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Hawkins Lake, Honker Lake

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Hebron School

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Barnet Spring, Barnett Spring, Bell Spring, Brown Spring, Cannon Spring, Cantrell Spring, Cash Spring, Cook Spring, Crumbaugh Spring, Gum Spring, Perry Spring, Providence Spring, Roland Spring, Saratoga Spring, Stoval Spring

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Baldwin Slough, Bells Creek, Big Crevasse Creek, Buzzard Creek, Confederate Branch, Cook Creek, Crab Creek, Crab Creek, Cravens Creek, Cypress Creek, Deer Lick Branch, Demumbers Creek, Dodds Creek, Dry Fork Skinframe Creek, Duncan Creek, Eddy Creek, Flat Creek, Glass Creek, Green Branch, Hammond Creek, Horseapple Creek, Hurricane Creek, Knob Creek, Kuhn Creek, Lick Creek, Little Carmack Creek, Livingston Creek, Mammoth Furnace Creek, McNabb Creek, Molloy Branch, Motley Creek, Negrorow Branch, Nickell Branch, North Fork Dryden Creek, O'Brien Branch, Panther Creek, Pilfer Creek, Pisgah Creek, Poplar Creek, Robertson Creek, Sand Hollow Creek, Skinframe Creek, Smith Creek, South Fork Dryden Creek, Spring Creek, Sweetwater Creek, Tinsley Creek, Willow Creek, Willow Creek

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Buzzard Rock, Hallaway Hill, Hopewell Hill, Iron Hill

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Gray Slough

  Towers     show all on map

WKMS-FM (Murray), WWLK-AM (Eddyville)

  Valleys     show all on map

Bell Hollow, Curry Hollow, Nickell Cove, Racetrack Hollow, Tinsley Hollow,

Lyon County, Kentucky Population By Race (2012 estimate)
RacePopulation
WhiteLyon County White population 7,8667,866  
BlackLyon County Black population 448447
MixedLyon County Mixed population 9392
AsianLyon County Asian population 2525
American IndianLyon County American Indian population 1716
Hawaiian & Pacific IslanderLyon County Hawaiian & Pacific Islander population 00

Additional population tables :
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Kentucky population by county