Guthrie

Small town in Todd County, southwest Kentucky; population (1990) 1,500. It is located 37 km/23 mi to the southeast of Hopkinsville, on the Tennessee state border. This rail junction in an agricultural area is the birthplace of novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren.

Guthrie

Town and administrative headquarters of Logan County, central Oklahoma; population (2000) 9,900. It is located 45 km/28 mi north of Oklahoma City, near the Cimarron River. The centre of the 1889 Oklahoma land rush, it was settled in one day. It was territorial capital (1890-1907) and state capital (1907-10), losing the latter role to Oklahoma City by vote. Most of the city's original buildings remain intact, forming one of the nation's largest historic districts. A commercial centre in an agricultural and oil producing region, the city has machine and railway work shops and manufactures building products, steel, furniture, and oilfield equipment.