Pulaski County, Kentucky

Founding: 1799
Parent counties: Green and Lincoln

Namesake: Casimir Pulaski, Continental Army general
Seat: Somerset (1801–)

Land area: 658 square miles

Population (2020): 65,034

Population (historic): 3,161 (1800); 9,500 (1830); 17,670 (1870); 31,293 (1900); 35,640 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1800–1910; 1920–1940; 1960–2020

Subdivisions: Five cities

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 1,781 (5.7%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 27.4%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 9.1%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 22.6%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 18.7%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $303
Average outbuilding value (1930): $169
Average farmhouse size (1940): 4.4 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 5,015
Average farm size (1920): 40 acres
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Somerset

Namesake: Somerset County, New Jersey

Founding: 1801 (platting); 1803 (post office); 1883 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 11,924

Population (historic): 231 (1830); 662 (1860); 805 (1880); 3,384 (1900); 5,508 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1830; 1850s; 1870–1910; 1920–2000; 2010s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 800 (14.3%)
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