Ghent
Ghent is a home rule-class city along the south bank of the Ohio River in Carroll County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 323 at the 2010 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 389 residents
- Description: town in Carroll County, Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Ghent, Kentucky”, “Ghent, KY”, and “McCools Creek Settlement”
- Postal code: 41045
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ghent Generating Station.
Ghent Generating Station
Power station
The Ghent Generating Station is a coal-fired power plant owned and operated by Kentucky Utilities near Ghent, Kentucky. It is located between Louisville, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio. Ghent Generating Station is situated 1½ miles northeast of Ghent.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vevay and Mount Sterling.
Vevay
Town
Photo: Warren LeMay, CC0.
Vevay is a town located in Jefferson Township and the county seat of Switzerland County, Indiana, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 1,741 at the 2020 census.
Mount Sterling
Hamlet
Mount Sterling is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Switzerland County, Indiana, United States. Mount Sterling is situated 4 miles north of Ghent.
Easterday
Hamlet
Easterday is an unincorporated community that is located in Carroll County, Kentucky, United States. Its post office is closed. Easterday is situated 4½ miles south of Ghent.
Ghent
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Carroll, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.73756° or 38° 44′ 15″ northLongitude
-85.05828° or 85° 3′ 30″ westPopulation
389Elevation
486 feet (148 metres)United Nations Location Code
US GHEOpen location code
86CPPWQR+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 153459984OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Ghent” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غنت”
- Basque: “Ghent”
- Catalan: “Ghent”
- Cebuano: “Ghent”
- Chechen: “Гент”
- Chinese: “Ghent”
- Chinese: “根特”
- Czech: “Ghent”
- Danish: “Ghent”
- Dutch: “Ghent”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جنت”
- Esperanto: “Ghent”
- French: “Ghent”
- German: “Ghent”
- German: “McCool’s Creek Settlement”
- Gilaki: “گنت (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “گنت”
- Haitian: “Ghent, Kentucky”
- Haitian: “Ghent”
- Ido: “Ghent, Kentucky”
- Ido: “Ghent”
- Irish: “Ghent”
- Italian: “Ghent”
- Kazakh: “Gent”
- Kazakh: “Гент”
- Kazakh: “گەنت”
- Kirghiz: “Гент”
- Ladin: “Ghent”
- Malagasy: “Ghent, Kentucky”
- Malagasy: “Ghent”
- Mazanderani: “گنت”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ghent”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ghent”
- Persian: “گنت”
- Polish: “Ghent”
- Portuguese: “Ghent”
- Serbian: “Гент”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ghent, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ghent”
- Slovak: “Ghent”
- South Azerbaijani: “قنت، کنتاکی”
- Spanish: “Ghent”
- Swedish: “Ghent, Kentucky”
- Swedish: “Ghent”
- Tatar: “Гент”
- Ukrainian: “Гент”
- Urdu: “گھینٹ، کینٹکی”
- Urdu: “گھینٹ”
- Uzbek: “Ghent”
- Uzbek: “Гҳент”
- Volapük: “Ghent”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ghent City Office and Ghent Baptist Church.
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