Owensboro

Owensboro is a town on the banks of the Ohio River in 's . It bills itself as the Barbecue Capital of the World and has had some interesting figures call it home over the years, such as Beulah Annan, whose story inspired the play and movie Chicago; Florence Henderson, aka Carol Brady of The Brady Bunch; NASCAR great Darrell Waltrip; and Johnny Depp.
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  • City with 55,500 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 394 feet (120 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code OWB
  • Description: county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States
  • Postal codes: 42301-42304
  • Also known as
    “Owensboro, Kentucky”
    “Owensboro, KY”
    “Owensborough”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Stephen Cathedral and First Baptist Church.
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Owensboro

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Latitude
37.7742° or 37° 46′ 27″ north
Longitude
-87.1133° or 87° 6′ 48″ west
UN/LOCODE
US OWB
Open location code
869JQVFP+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153762733
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4303436
Wiki­data ID
Q494295

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Owensboro” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوينسبورو”
  • Armenian: “Օուենսբորո”
  • Asturian: “Owensboro, Kentucky”
  • Asturian: “Owensboro”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ouensboro”
  • Basque: “Owensboro”
  • Belarusian: “Авенсбора”
  • Belarusian: “Авэнсбора”
  • Bulgarian: “Оуенсбъро”
  • Bulgarian: “Оуенсбъроу”
  • Catalan: “Owensboro”
  • Cebuano: “Owensboro”
  • Chechen: “Овенсборо”
  • Chinese: “欧文斯伯勒”
  • Chinese: “歐文斯伯勒”
  • Czech: “Owensboro”
  • Dagbani: “Owensboro”
  • Danish: “Owensboro”
  • Dutch: “Owensboro”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوينسبورو”
  • Finnish: “Owensboro”
  • French: “Owensboro”
  • Galician: “Owensboro, Kentucky”
  • Galician: “Owensboro”
  • German: “Owensboro”
  • Gilaki: “اؤونزبؤرؤ (کنتاکي)”
  • Gilaki: “اؤونزبؤرؤ”
  • Greek: “Όουενσμπόρο”
  • Haitian: “Owensboro, Kentucky”
  • Haitian: “Owensboro”
  • Hebrew: “אוונסבורו”
  • Hungarian: “Owensboro”
  • Ido: “Owensboro, Kentucky”
  • Ido: “Owensboro”
  • Interlingua: “Owensboro”
  • Irish: “Owensboro”
  • Italian: “Owensboro”
  • Japanese: “オーウェンズボロ”
  • Japanese: “オーエンズボロ”
  • Kazakh: “Ownsboro”
  • Kazakh: “Оунсборо”
  • Kazakh: “وۋنسبورو”
  • Kirghiz: “Оунсборо”
  • Korean: “오언즈버러”
  • Korean: “오웬스버러”
  • Korean: “오웬스보로”
  • Korean: “오웬즈버러”
  • Korean: “오웬즈보로”
  • Ladin: “Owensboro”
  • Latvian: “Ouensboro”
  • Luxembourgish: “Owensboro”
  • Malagasy: “Owensboro, Kentucky”
  • Malagasy: “Owensboro”
  • Mazanderani: “اوونزبروو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Owensboro”
  • Moksha: “Овэнсбора (Кэнтаки)”
  • Moksha: “Овэнсбора”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Owensboro”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Owensboro”
  • Norwegian: “Owensboro”
  • Persian: “اوونزبروو، کنتاکی”
  • Persian: “اوونزبروو”
  • Piemontese: “Owensboro”
  • Polish: “Owensboro”
  • Portuguese: “Owensboro”
  • Russian: “Овенсборо”
  • Russian: “Оуэнсборо”
  • Scots: “Owensboro”
  • Serbian: “Овенсборо”
  • Serbian: “Оуенсборо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Owensboro, Kentucky”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Owensboro”
  • Silesian: “Owensboro”
  • Slovak: “Owensboro”
  • Slovenian: “Owensboro”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوونزبروو، کنتاکی”
  • Spanish: “Owensboro (Kentucky)”
  • Spanish: “Owensboro”
  • Swedish: “Owensboro”
  • Tajik: “Оуэнсборо”
  • Tatar: “Овенсборо”
  • Turkish: “Owensboro, Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “Owensboro”
  • Ukrainian: “Оуенсборо”
  • Urdu: “اوینسبورو، کینٹکی”
  • Urdu: “اوینسبورو”
  • Uzbek: “Owensboro”
  • Uzbek: “Yellow Banks”
  • Uzbek: “Оwенсборо”
  • Volapük: “Owensboro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Owensboro, Kentucky”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Owensboro”
  • Welsh: “Owensboro”

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