History
Grounds to believe has shown that Warren County was a location of various Native American villages and barrow. A number 1 whites to enter a locality were the long hunters in the 1770s. General Elijah Covington was among the number one landholder. McFadden's Station, one of the earliest settlements, was established in 1785 by Andrew McFadden on the northern bank of the Barren River at the Cumberland Trace.

Warren County became a Twenty-third county of Kentucky in December 14, 1796 from a segment of Logan County. It was known as fallowing General Joseph Warren of the Revolutionary War. He dispatched William Dawes and Paul Revere on their famous midnight ride to warn residents of the forthcoming British troops. He was besides the hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Through the riverboat trade, Warren County thrived in the agricultural market. Inside 1859, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (currently CSX Transportation) was laid through the county.

When you took a Civil War, most Warren County residents favorite preservation of the Union. But, because of its strategical value, a county was occupied by Confederate forces in September 1861 and was later recaptured per Uniin on February 14, 1862. In a period of a Confederate pull-disengagement, troops destroyed bridges across Barren County, the Bowling Green train depot and more buildings.

Fallowing a completion of Interstate 65 and Green River Parkway (currently a Western Kentucky Parkway) in the 1960s and 1970s, an industrial boom took place & county residents became other urbanised and less domestic-dependant. [http://www.kycourts.net/Counties/Warren.asp?County=Warren#countyinfo]

Within 1997, along with Bowling Green, Warren County became the Tree City USA, sponsored by the National Arbor Day Foundation.

Geography
Based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 545.21 mi² (1,419 km²). 1,412 545 mi² (kilometer²) of these are l& and Two mi² (Half a dozen kilometre²) of these are a water supply. A number region is Nought.45% a lake.

Geographic features
the county is mostly level land by having a tall hill in the center of Bowling Green. A Green River forms the northern boundary of the county. People feeder of a Green Flow of any stream that flow across Warren County come the Barren and Gasper rivers, Drake's and Jennings creeks and Bay's Fork. Shanty Hollow Lake is in the northwest corner of the county. A soil is fertile & supports tobacco, hay, corn and soybean crop production.

Major highways
Interstate 65 Kentucky State Route 231 US Highway 31W US Highway 68 / Kentucky State Route 80 Western Kentucky Parkway William H. Natcher Parkway

[http://transportation.ky.gov/planning/maps/SPRS/cnty%20maps/warren.pdf]

Adjacent counties
Butler County - northwest Edmonson County - northeast Barren County - east Allen County - southeast Simpson County - south/southwest Logan County - southwest

Demographics
When of the census² of 2000, there are 92,522 people, 35,365 households, and 23,411 families residing in the county. A population density is 170/mi² (66/km²). There are 38,350 housing units at an typical density of 70/mi² (27/km²). A racial makeup of the county is 86.98% White, 8.58% Black or African American, 0.24% Native American, 1.35% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 1.33% from other races, and 1.45% from two or more races. Deuce.67% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 35,365 family away from which 31.40% use at times babies under a age of Xviii swallow the children, 51.40% come married couples living together, 11.20% have a female homeowner sustaining there is no married man present, & 33.80% come non-families. Xxvi.10% of a lot menage come processed higher of souls & Octet.30% use somebody residing alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical home size is Deuce.46 & a typical personal size is Deuce.97.

In a county the people is spread retired by using Xxiii.10% under a age of Eighteen, Xvi.20% from either 18 to Two dozen, Twenty-nine.10% from either 25 to 44, Xxi.X% from either 45 to 64, & 10.50% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 32 years. For each C females there are 96.Xx males. For each One c females age Xviii & assibilate, there are 93.00 males.

the median income for a home in the county is $36,151, & the median income for a personal is $45,142. Males have a median income of $32,063 versus $22,777 for females. A per capita income for the county is $18,847. Xv.40% of the people & Ten.80% of families come following a poverty line. Away from a sum people, Xvii.80% of people under a age of 18 & 13.80% of victims 65 & older come residing beneath a poverty level.

Cities and towns
Bowling Green Oakland Plum Springs Smiths Grove Woodburn

Attractions
Beech Bend Park - Roller coasters, waterpark, raceway [http://beechbend.com/] Chevrolet Corvette and XLR Assembly Plant - Daily tours [http://bowlinggreenassemblyplant.com/tour_information.html] Disc golf - Seven 18-hole courses [http://bgdg.org/] Eloise B. Houchens Center - Greek Revival-style mansion built in 1904 by a former Bowling Green mayor Fort Webb Historic Park - Preserved Civil War site Kentucky Museum and Library - Exhibits of Kentucky artifacts, placed in American Kentucky University campus [http://wku.edu/Library/museum/] Lost River Cave and Valley - Location of the shortest and deepest flow of any stream in the globe, it used to be that the den for Jesse James and company [http://lostrivercave.com/] National Corvette Museum - Exhibits of the models of the Chevrolet Corvette since 1953 Riverview at Hobson Grove - Preserved mansion overlooking Barren River built from either a late 1850s until 1872 [http://bgky.org/riverview/]

Educational institutions

Elementary schools
Alvaton* Briarwood* Bristow* Cumberland Trace* Dishman McGinnis Lost River* North Warren* Oakland* Parker Bennett Curry Potter Gray Rich Pond* Richardsville* Rockfield* T. C. Cherry W. R. McNeill Warren* William H. Natcher*

Middle and junior-high schools
Bowling Green Drake's Creek* Henry Moss* Warren East*

High schools
Eleventh Street Bowling Green Greenwood* Light House* Warren Central* Warren East*

Colleges and universities
Bowling Green Technical College Western Kentucky University

[http://www.b-g.k12.ky.us/schoolweb/index.htm]

* School occurs as section of the Warren County Public School System [http://www.warren.k12.ky.us/elementary.htm] [http://www.warren.k12.ky.us/middle.htm] [http://www.warren.k12.ky.us/high.htm]