Knox County, Kentucky

Founding: 1799
Parent county: Lincoln

Namesake: Henry Knox, Continental Amy general
Seat: Barbourville (1800–)

Land area: 386 square miles

Population (2020): 30,193

Population (historic): 5,875 (1810); 5,722 (1840); 8,294 (1870); 17,372 (1900); 26,266 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1810–1940; 1970s; 1990–2010

Subdivisions: One city; two CDPs

National Register listings: Nine

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 1,107 (7.6%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 17.2%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 4.1%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 31.4%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 25%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $344
Average outbuilding value (1930): $118
Average farmhouse size (1940): 3.7 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 2,877
Average farm size (1920): 34.9 acres
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Barbourville

Namesake: James Barbour, owner of the village site

Founding: 1800 (platting); 1804 (post office); 1854 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 3,222

Population (historic): 55 (1810); 224 (1840); 438 (1870); 1,010 (1900); 2,380 (1930)

Periods of population growth: 1800–1840; 1850–1870; 1880s; 1900–1970; 1980s; 2010s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 151 (13.2%)
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