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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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  • Type: City with 55,500 residents
  • Description: county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States
  • Also known as: “Owensboro, Kentucky”, “Owensboro, KY”, and “Owensborough”
  • Postal codes: 42301-42304

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Stephen Cathedral and First Baptist Church.

Church
Photo: juniorvelo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a Catholic cathedral and located in Owensboro, Kentucky, . It is the seat of the Diocese of Owensboro.

Church
The in Owensboro, Kentucky, established in 1835, is one of the oldest churches in the city. It has five pastoral staff members. It has programs for an age range of a few weeks old to 100 year olds.

Memorial
The , Ky, was a 16-foot-tall, two-part object — a 7-foot-tall bronze sculpture atop a 9-foot-tall granite pedestal — located at the southwest corner of the Courthouse lawn, at the intersection of Third and Frederica Streets, in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Owensboro

Latitude
37.7742° or 37° 46′ 27″ north
Longitude
-87.1133° or 87° 6′ 48″ west
Population
55,500
Elevation
394 feet (120 metres)
IATA airport code
OWB
United Nations Location Code
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: “Owensboro”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • “Owensboro”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Owensboro”. Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.