Fulton County, Kentucky

Founding: 1845
Parent county: Hickman

Namesake: Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat
Seat: Hickman (1845–)

Land area: 206 square miles

Population (2020): 6,515

Population (historic): 4,446 (1850); 6,161 (1870); 10,005 (1890); 14,114 (1910); 14,927 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1850–1920; 1930s

Subdivisions: Two cities; one CDP

National Register listings: 16

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 354 (10.5%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 18.1%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 3%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 23.8%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 19.5%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $735
Average outbuilding value (1930): $387
Average farmhouse size (1940): 4.3 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 1,205
Average farm size (1920): 69.5 acres
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Hickman

Namesake: Uncertain—perhaps Paschal Hickman, Kentucky soldier

Founding: circa 1820 (founding, as Mills Point); 1830 (post office); 1841 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 2,365

Population (historic): 401 (1850); 1,120 (1870); 1,652 (1890); 2,736 (1910); 2,321 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1850–1890; 1900s; 1920s; 1960s

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 62 (5.6%)
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Outstanding Buildings

1. *Jesse Whitesell Farm (1871). 8230 State Line Road. Italianate.
2. House (c. 1840). 3660 State Route 125.
3. *Asa Clark House (c. 1835). 3855 State Route 125. Razed.
4. *Farm (c. 1895). 1411 State Route 1129. Queen Anne.