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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: County with 8,680 residents
- Description: county in Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Lyon County”, “Lyon County, Kentucky”, and “Lyon County, KY”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carmack and Confederate.
Carmack
Locality
Carmack is an unincorporated community in Lyon County, Kentucky, United States. It is located on the shore of Lake Barkley in the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. It was also known as Pottertown.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.9981° or 36° 59′ 53″ northLongitude
-88.0658° or 88° 3′ 57″ westPopulation
8,680Elevation
404 feet (123 metres)Open location code
868HXWXM+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 316958754OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
4299595Wikidata ID
Q117917
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Satellite Map
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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: “Lyon Kūn”
- Chinese: “萊昂縣”
- Dutch: “Lyon County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Liono”
- Esperanto: “Lyon County”
- Finnish: “Lyonin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Lyon”
- French: “Comté de Lyon”
- French: “Lyon County”
- 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”
- Italian: “Lyon County”
- 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”
- Portuguese: “Lyon County”
- 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”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Lyon”
- Spanish: “condado de Lyon”
- Spanish: “Condado de Lyon”
- Spanish: “Lyon County”
- 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 County, Ky.”
- Turkish: “Lyon County, KY”
- Turkish: “Lyon County”
- Turkish: “Lyon ilçesi, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Lyon ilçesi, Ky.”
- Turkish: “Lyon ilçesi, KY”
- 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
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Saint Stevens Cemetery and Chinese Cemetery (Mammoth Furnace).
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