Perry County, Kentucky

Founding: 1820
Parent counties: Clay and Floyd

Namesake: Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. naval commander
Seat: Hazard (1824–)

Land area: 340 square miles

Population (2020): 28,473

Population (historic): 3,330 (1830); 3,950 (1860); 5,607 (1880); 8,276 (1900); 42,186 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1830; 1840–1940

Subdivisions: Three cities; three CDPs

National Register listings: One

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 975 (7.5%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 11.7%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 2.8%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 31.9%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 22.2%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $410
Average outbuilding value (1930): $135
Average farmhouse size (1940): 3.6 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 1,322
Average farm size (1920): 36.7 acres
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Hazard

Namesake: Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. naval commander

Founding: 1824 (platting); 1824 (post office); 1884 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 5,263

Population (historic): 76 (1880); 587 (1910); 7,021 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1880–1940; 1980s; 2010s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 450 (17.7%)

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