Following population increase in the area, Marshall County was created by the Kentucky legislature in 1842 from the northern half of Calloway County. Named after the fourth Chief of Justice for the U.S. John Marshall. Having a total area of 340 square miles, the county population county is at 31,191 according to the latest bereau report.
The county was founded in 1870 and was named after former Congressman John Preston Martin. Anyone that remembers the comedy bit of Roy D Mercer knows the name Inez very well. Inez is the town in which Marshall County is the seat for. The county has a total area of 231 sqaure miles and has a population count of 11,323. Not to mention the county sits right on the state line of Kentucky and West Virginia.
The county was created from (what was oeriginally) Bourbon County, VA in 1788 and named after George Mason who an american planter, politicain and, a Virginia delegate to the U.S Constitutional Convention. He is known as the “Father of the Bill of Rights”. Mason County is the county seat to the town of Maysville, it has a total area of 246 sqaure miles. According to the last bereau report, it has a population count of 17,150 residents.
McCracken County was founded in 1825 from Hickman County. The county was named after Woodford County native, Captain Virgil McCracken who was killed in the Battle of Frenchtown in southeastern Michigan during the War of 1812. Now during the American civil war, the Battle of Paducah happened in March of 1864 which resulted in a victory for the Confederate Army and over 140 troops lost their lives that day. With the county having 268 sqaure miles, it is home to over 65,000 ressidents.
Established in March of 1912, the county is named for James B McCreary who was a Confederate war hero and two-time Governor of Kentucly from 1875 to 1879 and again from 1911 to 1915. It was in his second term however that the county was established and legislated in his honor. Out of all 125 counties within the state, McCreary county without an actual incorporated city. With a total area of 431 square miles, the county has 17,408 residents calling it home.
McLean County was formed by an act of the Kentucky legislature on February 6, 1854, from portions of surrounding Daviess, Ohio, and Muhlenburg counties. The county was named after Judge Alney McLean who founded Greenville which is the county seat of Muhlenberg County. The county is seat to the city of Calhoun, KY located on the western side of the state. with over 9,500 residents calling the county home, it has a total area of 256 sqaure miles.
The county was founded on December 17, 1823, and named for Captain James M. Meade, who was killed in action at the Battle of River Raisin during the War ofo 1812. Meade county is the county seat to Brandenburg, KY. With the county having a total area of 325 square miles, it also home to 28,715 residents.
Menifee County was formed on May 29, 1869, from portions of Bath, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell, and Wolfe counties. The county is named for Richard Hickman Menefee who was a former U.S Congressman and to this day no one knows the reason why the spelling of the county name is different from that of who the county is named after. With a total area of only 206 sqaure miles, Menifee County is the fifth less populated county in Kentucky at 6,451 residents according to the latest bereau report.
When Mercer County became a county in 1785, became the county seat for Harrodsburg which originally belonged to Lincoln County. Mercer county is named after former Revolutinary War General Hugh Mercer who was later killed in the Battle of Princeton in 1777. Mercer county is home to Pleasent Hill (or Shakertown as some residents call it) which belongs to the National Historic Landmark District due to having over 30 historic buildings on site. Now not only is it home to Pleasent Hill, with a total area of 253 square miles, it is also home to 21,774 residents.
The county was founded in May 1860 and named after Thomas Metcalfe who was Governor of Kentucky from 1828 to 1832. Metcalfe county is the county seat to the incoporated city of Edmonton, KY. With the county having 10,030 residents calling it home, it has a total area of 291 sqaure miles.