Knox (county, Kentucky)

According to the United States Census Bureau , the county’s total area is 1,004,170 km ² , of which 1,004,040 km ^{2 are} land and 0,104 km ² or 0.010% are water bodies.

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According to the 2000 census ^[1] , 31,795 residents of 12,416 households and 8,939 families live in the okrug. The population density is 32.00 people per km ² . There are 13 999 residential buildings in the district, with a building density of about 14.00 buildings per km ² . Racial composition of the population: white - 97.84%, African - Americans - 0.82%, Native Americans ( Indians ) - 0.25%, Asians - 0.17%, Hawaiians - 0.02%, representatives of other races - 0.08 %, representatives of two or more races - 0.82%. Hispanics accounted for 0.57% of the population, regardless of race .

Of the total number of households , 34.40% are children under the age of 18, 54.30% of households are married couples living together, 13.60% of households are single women without a spouse, 28.00% of households households are not related to families , 25.70% of households consist of one person, 10.60% of households consist of elderly people (65 years and older) living alone. The average household size is 2.51 people and the average family size is 3.01 people.

The age structure of the district: 26.20% under the age of 18, 9.70% from 18 to 24, 28.10% from 25 to 44, 23.20% from 45 to 64, and 23.20% from 65 and older. The average age of a resident of the district is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 92.90 males . For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 88.70 males .

The average household income in the okrug was 18,294 USD , and for a family - 23,136 USD . The average male earnings were 24,833 USD against 18,390 USD for a woman . The per capita income was 10 660 USD . About 29.60% of families and 34.80% of the total population were below the poverty line , including 42.40% of youth (those who were not yet 18 years old) and 28.90% of those who were already over 65 years old .

• Bradley, Erwin S., Union College: A History, 1889-1954, Written in Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Its Founding (Barbourville, KY: Union College, 1954). Available online at: thttp: //www.archive.org/details/unioncollege18791954brad
• Decker, Elmer, “Knox County Kentucky History,” manuscript by a local attorney during the 1930s and 1940s, containing much in the way of raw historical facts as well as documents, available online on the Bell County [KY] Public Libraries website www. bellcountypubliclibraries.org/crm/ky/knox/decker.html
• Fetterman, John, Stinking Creek: The Portrait of a Small Mountain Community in Appalachia (EP Dutton, 1967; reprint, Plume, 1970). Also available online on the Bell County [KY] Public Libraries website. See: http://www.bellcountypubliclibraries.org/crm/ky/knox/Doc1.html
• Marigold, W. Gordon and Erwin S. Bradley, Union College, 1879-1979 (Barbourville, KY: Union College, 1979.
• Mills, Michael C., Barbourville and Knox County. Arcadia Publishing (August 2, 2000). Also available online at: http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=VPROD&Product_Code=9780738505855
• Mitchell, Charles Reed, ed., History and Families, Knox County, Kentucky, 1799-1994. With a History of Knox County, Kentucky by William Sherman Oxendine, Charles Reed Mitchell, and Ron Rosenstiel (Paducah, KY: Turner Pub. Co., 1994).
• Warren, King Solomon, History of Knox County, Kentucky (Barbourville, KY: Daniel Boone Festival, 1976).

• Kentucky County Official Website
• National Association of US Districts
• The Kentucky Highlands Project