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Russell
Kentuckycity
Russell
Total population
3,676
Median home value
$211,900
Bachelor's+
Median income
$76,182
Founded
1869
Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Russell is a home rule-class city on the south bank of the Ohio River in Greenup County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census, Russell had a population of 3,744. Russell is a suburb of Ashland and part of the Huntington-Ashland-Ironton metropolitan area. It has close economic affiliations with its neighbors, Ashland and Flatwoods in Kentucky and Ironton, Ohio.
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History
In 1829, James E. McDowell, William Lindsay Poage, and his brother erected an iron furnace; they named the foundry and the community that grew up around it "Amanda Furnace" after William's infant daughter. The furnace ceased operation in 1861. John Russell and his Means and Russell Iron Company purchased the land of the present city beside Amanda Hill from the Poage brothers. and the city was formally incorporated under the name "Russell" in 1874. The expected C&O spur did not arrive until 1889 but, when it did, it constructed a railyard, roundhouse, and shops and the city grew quickly. The city celebrates this influence with the annual "Russell Railroad Days" each August. The Fortune 500 company Ashland Oil relocated its headquarters to Russell in 1974, but moved to the Cincinnati suburb of Covington in 1999.
Geography
Russell is located in the eastern corner of Greenup County at (38.518176, -82.697680), directly across the Ohio River from Ironton, Ohio.
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Largest nearby schools
- Russell High SchoolHigh · Russell · 668 students · 16.3:1 ratio
- Russell Middle SchoolMiddle · Russell · 511 students · 16.5:1 ratio
- Russell Primary SchoolElementary · Russell · 486 students · 13.9:1 ratio
- Russell-McDowell Intermediate SchoolElementary · Flatwoods · 456 students · 15.2:1 ratio
- Raceland-Worthington Middle SchoolMiddle · Raceland · 447 students · 21.3:1 ratio
- Campbell Elementary SchoolElementary · Raceland · 332 students · 15.8:1 ratio
- Raceland-Worthington High SchoolHigh · Raceland · 307 students · 14.6:1 ratio
- Wurtland Middle SchoolMiddle · Wurtland · 250 students · 11.4:1 ratio
Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • US Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates)
- • NOAA National Weather Service
- • Wikidata
- • NCES via Urban Institute Education Data Portal
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library