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Laurel County

county in Kentucky, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_kentucky Q503516

Facts

21 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Kentucky
Inception
December 21, 1825[13]
Official website
londonky.gov[15]
Native label
Laurel County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.111°, -84.118°[14]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kentucky[2]
Shares border with
Jackson County, Clay County, Knox County, Whitley County, McCreary County, Pulaski County, Rockcastle County[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Population and size

Area
+1149
Elevation above sea level
+368
Population
63k (59k–63k, n=7)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
More facts +10
Capital
London[4]
Different from
Laurel
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Kentucky/Laurel County
List of monuments
National Register of Historic Places listings in Laurel County, Kentucky[23]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108743
Named after
Kalmia latifolia[12]
Number of households
+22665
P14687
🗺️ View shape: US presidential elections by county/Laurel County, Kentucky
Per capita income
+23283
Water as percent of area
+2.2
🏷️ Also known as
en Laurel County, Kentucky en Laurel County, KY en Laurel County ar مقاطعة لوريل ar مقاطعه لوريل، كنتاكي es condado de Laurel es Laurel County fa شهرستان لاورل fi Laurelin piirikunta fr comté de Laurel fr Laurel County hu Laurel megye it contea di Laurel it Laurel County ja ローレル郡 ko 로렐군 pl Hrabstwo Laurel pt Laurel County ro Comitatul Laurel ru Лорел
🔖 Identifiers · 30
ISNI
000000040618025X
VIAF cluster ID
159466470
Library of Congress authority ID
n82049601
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Laurel County Kentucky Courthouse.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
19219
FAST ID
1219390
FIPS 6-4 ID
21125
Freebase ID
/m/0nn5h
GADM ID
USA.18.63_1
GNIS Feature ID
516909
GeoNames ID
4297480
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000808
Show all 30 identifiers +18
HASC
US.KY.LU
INaturalist place ID
75
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.21125
MusicBrainz area ID
757d1748-0728-4a9a-a3ad-7e8fb31a51c5
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007564460305171
OBO Gazetteer ID
22224249
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2792144
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1846542
Our Campaigns container ID
3826
Ringgold ID
99691
Taxonomicon ID
1805910
Topic's main category
Category:Laurel County, Kentucky
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10038958
UMLS CUI
C3829312
Who's on First ID
102084393
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"LaurelCounty", "Kentucky", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJgd9ChkFVJ34Mqq9WQH4q
Yale LUX ID
place/836dce6a-6fdf-40b1-a7a1-c8f1cec2745e

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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 7
Clay County, Pulaski County, Jackson County, Knox County, McCreary County, Rockcastle County, Whitley County
← Shares border with 7
Clay County, Pulaski County, Jackson County, Knox County, McCreary County, Rockcastle County, Whitley County
Contained subdivisions 5
London, East Bernstadt, North Corbin, Atlanta, Lake
People born here 3
Flem D. Sampson, William E. Evans, Silas House
← Category combines topics 3
Category:People from Laurel County, Kentucky, Category:Geography of Laurel County, Kentucky, Category:Populated places in Laurel County, Kentucky
Capital 1
London
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Laurel County, Kentucky
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
Laurel
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Kentucky
Located in time zone 1
Eastern Time Zone
Named after 1
Kalmia latifolia
Topic's main category 1
Category:Laurel County, Kentucky
← Capital of 1
London
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Laurel County, Kentucky
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Kentucky
← Different from 1
Laurel
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Summary

Laurel County is a county of Kentucky[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Laurel County covers an area of {'amount': '+1149'}[24]. It sits at an elevation of {'amount': '+368'}[25].

Related Entities

Kentucky United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/Laurel County, Kent
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Laurel County, Kentucky.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidenti"
  2. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxonomicon ID → 1805910
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 22224249
    UMLS CUI → C3829312
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  3. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Laurel County, Kentucky
    Coordinate location → {'latitude': 37.11067, 'longitude': -84.1178}
    Population → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Laurel County, Kentucky
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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