Poverty
Poverty is an unincorporated community located in McLean County, Kentucky, United States. Poverty was named by William Short, a local physician who strongly disliked his snobbish neighbors.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in McLean County, Kentucky
- Also known as: “Poverty, Kentucky” and “Poverty, KY”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lemon and Ashbyburg.
Lemon
Hamlet
Lemon is an unincorporated community located in McLean County, Kentucky, United States. It was also called Whitesburg with at least one old house from American Civil War era. Lemon is situated 3 miles west of Poverty.
Ashbyburg
Hamlet
Ashbyburg is an unincorporated community in Hopkins County, Kentucky, United States. Ashbyburg is located near the Green River and Kentucky Route 370 in northeastern Hopkins County, 6.1 miles west of Calhoun. Ashbyburg is situated 3½ miles southwest of Poverty.
Cleopatra
Hamlet
Cleopatra is an unincorporated community located in McLean County, Kentucky, United States. It was also known as Tichenors Store. Thomas Cicero Tichenor established a store in 1867. Cleopatra is situated 4 miles northeast of Poverty.
Poverty
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: McLean, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.57088° or 37° 34′ 15″ northLongitude
-87.32111° or 87° 19′ 16″ westElevation
400 feet (122 metres)Open location code
869JHMCH+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 153805519OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Poverty” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “波弗蒂”
- French: “Poverty”
- Japanese: “ポヴァティ (ケンタッキー州)”
- Japanese: “ポヴァティ”
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