Paducah is a city in the Upland South and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. The most populous city in the Jackson Purchase region, it is located in the Southeastern United States at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio rivers, halfway between St. Louis, Missouri, to the northwest and Nashville, Tennessee, to the southeast. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,137, up from 25,024 in 2010. Twenty blocks of the city's downtown have been designated as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Southeast
Paducah
McCracken County, KY
Population
26,869
Walk Score
72 · Very Walkable
Median rent
$815
Median home value
$152,600
Established
1830
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On the National Register
Historic districts
- California Apartments · listed 2016
- Jefferson Street-Fountain Avenue Residential District · listed 1982
- Jefferson Street-Fountain Avenue Residential District (Boundary Increase) · listed 2012
- Lower Town Neighborhood District · listed 1982
- Paducah Downtown Commercial District · listed 1982
- Paducah Downtown Commercial District (Boundary Increase) · listed 1985
- Paducah Market House District · listed 1978
- Paducah Northside Historic District · listed 2022
- Wallace Park Neighborhood Historic District · listed 2012
Notable landmarks
- Anderson, Artelia, Hall · listed 1983
- Anderson-Smith House · listed 1984
- Angles, The · listed 1976
- Archeological Site 15McN51 · listed 1985
- Confederate Monument in Paducah · listed 1997
- Grace Episcopal Church · listed 1976
- Home of the Friendless · listed 2000
- Hotel Irvin Cobb · listed 1978
- Hotel Metropolitan · listed 2002
- Kenmil Place · listed 2009
- Lincoln School · listed 1988
- Market House · listed 1973
- Masonic Temple · listed 2002
- Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway Office and Freight House · listed 1979
- Paducah City Hall · listed 2017
- Paducah Coca-Cola Bottling Plant · listed 2013
- People's First National Bank and Trust Company Building · listed 1980
- Pettit Building · listed 2019
- Saint Mary Academy Complex · listed 1987
- St. Francis DeSales Roman Catholic Church · listed 1979
- Tilghman, Augusta, High School (Additional Documentation) · listed 1995
- Tilghman, Lloyd, Memorial · listed 1997
- Tilghman-Woolfolk House · listed 1998
- Union Station School · listed 2011
- Westminster Presbyterian Church · listed 2017
- …and 1 more
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