Lyon
Lyon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,680. Its county seat is Eddyville. The county was formed from Caldwell County, Kentucky in 1854 and named for former Congressman Chittenden Lyon.
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.- Type: County with 8,680 residents
- Description: county in Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Lyon County”, “Lyon County, Kentucky”, “Lyon County, KY”, “Lyon County, Ky.”, “Lyon ilçesi, Kentucky”, “Lyon ilçesi, KY”, “Lyon ilçesi, Ky.”, and “Okrožje Lyon”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carmack and Confederate.
Confederate
Hamlet
Confederate is an unincorporated community in Lyon County, Kentucky, United States.
Lyon
- Categories: county of Kentucky and locality
- Location: Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.9981° or 36° 59′ 53″ north
Longitude
-88.0658° or 88° 3′ 57″ west
Population
8,680
Elevation
404 feet (123 metres)
Open location code
868HXWXM+6M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Lyon” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lyon County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ليون”
- Armenian: “Լայոն շրջան”
- Armenian: “Լիոն շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Lyon”
- Basque: “Lyon konderria”
- Bavarian: “Lyon County, Kentucky”
- Bavarian: “Lyon County”
- Bishnupriya: “লয়ন কাউন্টি, কেন্টাকি”
- Bishnupriya: “লয়ন কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Лайън”
- Catalan: “comtat de Lyon”
- Cebuano: “Lyon County”
- Chechen: “Лайон (гуо, Кентукки)”
- Chechen: “Лайон”
- Chinese: “萊昂縣”
- Dutch: “Lyon County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Liono”
- Estonian: “Lyoni maakond”
- Finnish: “Lyonin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Lyon”
- French: “Comté de Lyon”
- Ganda: “Lyon County, Kentucky”
- Ganda: “Lyon County”
- Georgian: “ლიონის ოლქი”
- German: “Lyon County”
- Gilaki: “لیون ٚ شأرستان (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “لیون ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Λάιον”
- Hungarian: “Lyon megye”
- Irish: “Contae Lyon”
- Italian: “contea di Lyon”
- Italian: “Contea di Lyon”
- Japanese: “ライアン郡”
- Korean: “라이언군”
- Low German: “Lyon County”
- Mazanderani: “لیون شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Lyon Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lyon Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lyon County”
- Norwegian: “Lyon County”
- Persian: “شهرستان لیون، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “شهرستان لیون”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Lyon”
- Portuguese: “condado de Lyon”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Lyon”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Lyon, Kentucky”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Lyon”
- Russian: “Лайон”
- Sardinian: “contea de Lyon”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lyon County”
- Serbian: “Округ Лајон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lyon County, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lyon County”
- Slovenian: “Lyon County”
- Spanish: “condado de Lyon”
- Spanish: “Condado de Lyon”
- Swedish: “Lyon County, Kentucky”
- Swedish: “Lyon County”
- Tatar: “Лайон (округ, Кентуки)”
- Tatar: “Лайон”
- Tumbuka: “Lyon County, Kentucky”
- Tumbuka: “Lyon County”
- Turkish: “Lyon County, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Lyon ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Лайон”
- Ukrainian: “Ліон”
- Urdu: “لیون کاؤنٹی، کینٹکی”
- Urdu: “لیون کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Lyon”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Lyon, Kentucky”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Lyon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lyon, Kentucky”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lyon”
- Welsh: “Lyon County, Kentucky”
- Welsh: “Lyon County”
- Western Panjabi: “لیون کاؤنٹی، کینٹکی”
- Western Panjabi: “لیون کاؤنٹی”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Wildwood Hills and Cross Road.
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Highlights: Saint Stevens Cemetery and Chinese Cemetery (Mammoth Furnace).
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