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Paducah

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Paducah

City and administrative headquarters of McCracken County, west Kentucky, near the border with Illinois, 137 km/85 mi southwest of Evansville, Indiana; population (2000) 26,300. Situated at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers, it is a centre for tobacco, agriculture, and coal. It is also a centre of rail, river, and air transport. Growth has been generated by federal energy-production projects.

The city was laid out in 1827 by William Clark (of Lewis and Clark fame), and named after a Chickasaw chief, Paduke.



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