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Paducah

Paducah is a small city on the Ohio River about midway between , and , . The county seat of McCracken County and the largest city in the Jackson Purchase area of Kentucky, Paducah has a booming riverfront restaurant…
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  • Type: City with 25,000 residents
  • Description: city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States
  • Also known as: “Paducah, Kentucky”, “Paducah, KY”, and “Pekin”
  • Postal codes: 42001-42003

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Quilt Museum and St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church.

Museum
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The , located in Paducah, , is an art museum that exhibits fiber art and quilting from around the world. The museum is recognized by USA Today as one of the world's top quilt displays.

Church
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The St. Francis DeSales Roman Catholic Church is a historic church building at 116 S. 6th Street in Paducah, . It was built in 1899 and, together with its 1927-built rectory, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Church
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
is a historic church in Paducah, Kentucky. The church is located at 820 Broadway in the historic centre of Paducah, close to the Lloyd Tilghman House and Civil War Museum.

Paducah

Latitude
37.0834° or 37° 5′ 0″ north
Longitude
-88.6° or 88° 36′ 0″ west
Population
25,000
Elevation
341 feet (104 metres)
IATA airport code
PAH
United Nations Location Code
US PAH
Open location code
869H39MX+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153647481
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4048662
Wiki­data ID
Q984377
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Paducah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بادوكا”
  • Basque: “Paducah”
  • Bengali: “পাদুকা”
  • Bengali: “পাদোচা”
  • Catalan: “Paducah”
  • Cebuano: “Paducah (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Kentucky)”
  • Cebuano: “Paducah”
  • Chechen: “Педука”
  • Chinese: “Paducah”
  • Chinese: “帕杜卡”
  • Chinese: “帕迪尤卡”
  • Czech: “Paducah”
  • Dagbani: “Paducah”
  • Danish: “Paducah”
  • Dutch: “Paducah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بادوكا”
  • Finnish: “Paducah”
  • French: “Paducah”
  • German: “Paducah”
  • Gilaki: “پادوکا (کنتاکي)”
  • Gilaki: “پادوکا”
  • Greek: “Παντουκάχ”
  • Gujarati: “પડુકાહ”
  • Haitian: “Paducah, Kentucky”
  • Haitian: “Paducah”
  • Hebrew: “פאדוקה”
  • Hindi: “पेडूकाः”
  • Hungarian: “Paducah”
  • Ido: “Paducah, Kentucky”
  • Ido: “Paducah”
  • Indonesian: “Paducah”
  • Irish: “Paducah”
  • Italian: “Paducah”
  • Japanese: “パデューカ”
  • Japanese: “パデュカー”
  • Kannada: “ಪಡುಕಾಹ್”
  • Kazakh: “Padwka”
  • Kazakh: “Падука”
  • Kazakh: “پادۋكا”
  • Kirghiz: “Падука”
  • Korean: “퍼듀카”
  • Ladin: “Paducah”
  • Latvian: “Paduka”
  • Lithuanian: “Paduka”
  • Malagasy: “Paducah, Kentucky”
  • Malagasy: “Paducah”
  • Malay: “Paducah”
  • Marathi: “पाडुका”
  • Marathi: “पोडुकाह”
  • Mazanderani: “پادوکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Paducah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paducah”
  • Norwegian: “Paducah”
  • Persian: “پادوکا”
  • Persian: “پدوک”
  • Persian: “پدوکا، کنتاکی”
  • Polish: “Paducah”
  • Portuguese: “Paducah”
  • Russian: “Падака”
  • Russian: “Падьюка”
  • Serbian: “Падјука”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Paducah, Kentucky”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Paducah”
  • Silesian: “Paducah”
  • Sinhala: “පඩුකා”
  • Slovak: “Paducah”
  • Slovenian: “Paducah”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پدوکا، کنتاکی”
  • Spanish: “Paducah (Kentucky)”
  • Spanish: “Paducah”
  • Swedish: “Paducah, Kentucky”
  • Swedish: “Paducah”
  • Tamil: “படுகாஹ்”
  • Tatar: “Педука”
  • Telugu: “పదూక”
  • Thai: “พาดูคาห์”
  • Turkish: “Paducah, Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “Paducah”
  • Ukrainian: “Падука”
  • Ukrainian: “Педука”
  • Urdu: “پاڈوکاہ، کینٹکی”
  • Urdu: “پاڈوکاہ”
  • Uzbek: “Paducah”
  • Uzbek: “Падуcаҳ”
  • Vietnamese: “Paducah”
  • Volapük: “Paducah”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Paducah, Kentucky”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Paducah”
  • “Paducah”

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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 “Paducah”. Photo: Westkentuckygenealogy, CC BY-SA 3.0.