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Shelbyville

city in Shelby County, Kentucky, United States
Place City In The United States Q2262385
Shelbyville
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Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
city in the United States
Inception
1792[9]
Official website
shelbyvillekentucky.com[11]
Official name
Shelbyville[16]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.212°, -85.226°[10]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Shelby County[2]

Population and size

Area
+21.857934, +21.269446[19][20]
Elevation above sea level
+232[18]
Population
+14045, +17282[12][13]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 14,045 · 17,282 GeoNames 15,253 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
502[8]
Postal code
40065, 40066[6][7]
More facts +7
Capital of
Shelby County[15]
Head of government
David B. Eaton, Troy Ethington[4][5]
Number of households
+6029[17]
Office held by the head of government
mayor[14]
Per capita income
+31327
Territory overlaps
Shelbyville urban area
Water as percent of area
+1.8929[21]
🏷️ Also known as
en Shelbyville en City of Shelbyville en Shelbyville, Kentucky en Shelbyville, KY ar شيلبيفيل el Σέλμπιβιλ es Shelbyville (Kentucky) fa شلبیویل ja シェルビービル ko 셸비빌 ru Шелбивилл tr Shelbyville, Kentucky uk Шелбівілл zh 谢尔比维尔
🔖 Identifiers · 26
VIAF cluster ID
134889049
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n82067417
ArchINFORM location ID
38093
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Kentucky/Localities/S/Shelbyville/
FAST ID
1219885
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
21-70050
FactGrid item ID
Collonges
Freebase ID
/m/0th_2
GNIS Feature ID
503326, 2405455
GeoNames ID
4308122
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2041264
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
shelbyville-1
Show all 26 identifiers +14
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0436812
Harper's tag
shelbyville
IdRef ID
230639062
J9U entity ID
987007566964505171
MusicBrainz area ID
75814404-a998-4be6-b4e2-2ee13f775ef6
OpenStreetMap relation ID
130885
OpenWeatherMap city ID
4308122
Quora topic ID
Shelbyville-KY
Subreddit
shelbyky
Topic's main category
Category:Shelbyville, Kentucky
UN/LOCODE
USSVZ
Who's on First ID
85947185
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJrWG8wD97gRDCdcQG9FKd
Yale LUX ID
place/bf997111-396c-461d-a883-f9cf0f4634e6

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🔗 Connections
People born here 7
Augustus Owsley Stanley, Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, Thomas Theodore Crittenden, Alice Hegan Rice, Albert S. Willis, James Armstrong, Lee Tinsley
Capital of 1
Shelby County
Country 1
United States
FactGrid item ID 1
Collonges
Instance of 1
city in the United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Shelby County
Office held by the head of government 1
mayor
People who died here 1
Buddy Ryan
Topic's main category 1
Category:Shelbyville, Kentucky
← Capital 1
Shelby County
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Shelbyville, Kentucky
← Place of publication 1
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Summary

Shelbyville is a city in the United States[1].

Related Entities

Collonges United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → shelbyville
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: shelbyville, Matched to shelbyville (#289959179) in Harper's tag"
  2. 24w ago · 沈澄心 · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for people born here → Wikidata item
    Official website → http://shelbyvillekentucky.com/
    Capital of → Shelby County
    Instance of → city in the United States
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: FAST ID: 1219885, Added with moreIdentifiers"
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