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Simpson County

county in Kentucky, United States
Administrative Area County Of Kentucky Q502945

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Kentucky
Inception
January 28, 1819[12]
Official website
simpsoncountyky.gov[14]
Native label
Simpson County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 36.740°, -86.580°[13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kentucky[2]
Shares border with
Allen County, Logan County, Warren County, Sumner County, Robertson County[5][6][7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
+612
Population
20k (17k–20k, n=7)[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
More facts +9
Capital
Franklin[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Franklin[11]
Different from
Simpson County
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Kentucky/Simpson County
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108787
Named after
John Simpson[10]
Number of households
+7181[22]
Per capita income
+24402
Water as percent of area
+1
🏷️ Also known as
en Simpson County, Kentucky en Simpson County en Simpson County, KY ar مقاطعة سيمبسون el κομητεία Σίμσον es Condado de Simpson (Kentucky) es Condado de Simpson fa شهرستان سیمپسون fi Simpsonin piirikunta fr comté de Simpson hu Simpson megye it contea di Simpson ja シンプソン郡 ko 심슨군 pl Hrabstwo Simpson ro Comitatul Simpson ru Симпсон tr Simpson County tr Simpson County, Kentucky tr Simpson County, Ky.
🔖 Identifiers · 26
VIAF cluster ID
143109295
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n83205377
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Old Simpson County, Kentucky courthouse.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
19263
FIPS 6-4 ID
21213
Freebase ID
/m/0nmlv
GADM ID
USA.18.107_1
GNIS Feature ID
516953
GeoNames ID
4308447
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000842
HASC
US.KY.SI
INaturalist place ID
994
Show all 26 identifiers +14
J9U entity ID
987007562248505171
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.21213
MusicBrainz area ID
e928c825-77fc-4dc3-ac87-306ce748e636
OBO Gazetteer ID
22224327
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2792100
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1846585
Our Campaigns container ID
3870
Taxonomicon ID
1805956
Topic's main category
Category:Simpson County, Kentucky
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10039061
UMLS CUI
C3815262
Who's on First ID
102085611
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"SimpsonCounty", "Kentucky", "UnitedStates"}]
Yale LUX ID
place/fe205db9-5650-4652-9a76-3400eaec135e
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 2 statements · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Elevation above sea levelP2044
204 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
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Credit
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Chicago 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 5
Allen County, Warren County, Logan County, Robertson County, Sumner County
← Shares border with 5
Allen County, Warren County, Logan County, Robertson County, Sumner County
Contained subdivisions 3
Franklin, Black Jack, Red River
← Category combines topics 3
Category:People from Simpson County, Kentucky, Category:Geography of Simpson County, Kentucky, Category:Populated places in Simpson County, Kentucky
Capital 1
Franklin
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Simpson County, Kentucky
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Franklin
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
Simpson County
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Kentucky
Located in time zone 1
Central Time Zone
People born here 1
Jereboam Orville Beauchamp
Topic's main category 1
Category:Simpson County, Kentucky
← Capital of 1
Franklin
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Simpson County, Kentucky
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Kentucky
← Different from 1
Simpson County
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Summary

Simpson County is a county of Kentucky[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Simpson County covers an area of {'amount': '+612'}[23].

Related Entities

Kentucky United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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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. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    Tabular data series → Data:US presidential elections by county/Simpson County, Ken
    "Created claim: Tabular data series: Data:US presidential elections by county/Simpson County, Kentucky.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States president"
  2. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxonomicon ID → 1805956
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 22224327
    UMLS CUI → C3815262
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #31546"
  3. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Simpson County, Kentucky
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → Franklin
    Coordinate location → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Simpson County, Kentucky
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: NCI Thesaurus ID: C108787, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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