Owensboro
Owensboro is a town on the banks of the Ohio River in Kentucky's Western Coal Fields. 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.
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.- 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.
St. Stephen Cathedral
Church
First Baptist Church
Church
The First Baptist Church 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.
Owensboro High School
School
Owensboro High School is a public high school located at 1800 Frederica Street in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States. The school's digital newspaper is The Digital Devil.
Owensboro
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Daviess, Western Coal Fields, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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”
- “Owensboro”
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