Kenton
Kenton County is a county located in the northern part of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 169,064, making it the third most populous county in Kentucky.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: County with 169,000 residents
- Description: county in Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Kenton County”, “Kenton County, Kentucky”, and “Kenton County, KY”
- Neighbors: Hamilton County
Places of Interest
Highlights include Simon Kenton High School.
Simon Kenton High School
School
Simon Kenton High School is a high school located at 11132 Madison Pike in Independence, Kentucky. The school's mascot is the Pioneers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Independence and Latonia Lakes.
Independence
Town
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Independence is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. It is one of its county's two seats of government. The population was 28,676 at the time of the 2020 census.
Latonia Lakes
Village
Latonia Lakes is a former city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 325 at the 2000 census. The city voted to be dissolved in the general elections on November 7, 2006, although the results were contested due to alleged voting irregularities.
Nicholson
Hamlet
Nicholson is an unincorporated community in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States, located directly south of Independence.
Kenton
- Categories: county of Kentucky and locality
- Location: Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.9253° or 38° 55′ 31″ northLongitude
-84.5332° or 84° 31′ 60″ westPopulation
169,000Elevation
883 feet (269 metres)Open location code
86CQWFG8+4POpenStreetMap ID
node 316958952OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
4296902Wikidata ID
Q498116
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Kenton” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kenton County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كينتون”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه كينتون، كنتاكي”
- Armenian: “Քենտոն շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Kenton”
- Basque: “Kenton konderria”
- Bavarian: “Kenton County, Kentucky”
- Bavarian: “Kenton County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Кентан”
- Belarusian: “Кентан (акруга, Кентукі)”
- Belarusian: “Кентан”
- Bishnupriya: “কেন্টোন কাউন্টি, কেন্টাকি”
- Bishnupriya: “কেন্টোন কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Кентън”
- Catalan: “comtat de Kenton”
- Cebuano: “Kenton County”
- Chechen: “Кентон (гуо, Кентукки)”
- Chechen: “Кентон”
- Chinese: “Kenton Kūn”
- Chinese: “肯頓縣”
- Chinese: “肯頓郡”
- Chinese: “肯顿县”
- Danish: “Kenton County”
- Dutch: “Kenton County”
- Estonian: “Kentoni maakond”
- Finnish: “Kentonin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Kenton”
- French: “Comté de Kenton”
- Ganda: “Kenton County, Kentucky”
- Ganda: “Kenton County”
- Georgian: “კენტონის ოლქი”
- German: “Kenton County”
- Gilaki: “کنتون ٚ شأرستان (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “کنتون ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Κέντον”
- Hebrew: “קנטון”
- Hungarian: “Kenton megye”
- Irish: “Contae Kenton”
- Italian: “contea di Kenton”
- Italian: “Contea di Kenton”
- Japanese: “ケントン・カウンティ”
- Japanese: “ケントン郡”
- Korean: “켄턴군”
- Low German: “Kenton County”
- Mazanderani: “کنتون شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Kenton Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kenton Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kenton County”
- Norwegian: “Kenton County”
- Persian: “شهرستان کنتون، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “شهرستان کنتون”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Kenton”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Kenton”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Kenton, Kentucky”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Kenton”
- Russian: “Кентон”
- Sardinian: “contea de Kenton”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kenton County”
- Serbian: “Округ Кентон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kenton County, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kenton County”
- Slovenian: “Kenton County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Kenton”
- South Azerbaijani: “کنتون بؤلگهسی، کنتاکی”
- Spanish: “Condado de Kenton (Kentucky)”
- Spanish: “Condado de Kenton”
- Swedish: “Kenton County”
- Tatar: “Кентон (округ, Кентуки)”
- Tatar: “Кентон”
- Tumbuka: “Kenton County, Kentucky”
- Tumbuka: “Kenton County”
- Turkish: “Kenton County, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Kenton County, Ky.”
- Turkish: “Kenton County, KY”
- Turkish: “Kenton County”
- Turkish: “Kenton ilçesi, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Kenton ilçesi, Ky.”
- Turkish: “Kenton ilçesi, KY”
- Turkish: “Kenton ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Кентон”
- Urdu: “کینٹان کاؤنٹی، کینٹکی”
- Urdu: “کینٹان کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Kenton”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Kenton, Kentucky”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Kenton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Kenton, Kentucky”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Kenton”
- Welsh: “Kenton County, Kentucky”
- Welsh: “Kenton County”
- Western Panjabi: “کینٹن کاؤنٹی”
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