List of all cities and towns in Monroe County
Monroe County is a county in the Eastern Pennyroyal Plateau region of Kentucky, United States. Tompkinsville is the county seat.
President James Monroe is honored with the county’s name. It is a dry county or prohibition county.
Monroe County is the only county in the United States named after a President that also has a county seat named after his vice-president.
The county was named after James Monroe, the fifth President and originator of the Monroe Doctrine, in 1820.
Daniel Tompkins is the name of the county seat. They both served between 1817 and 1825.
The county has a total area of 332 square miles (860 km2), of which 329 square miles (850 km2) is land and 2.7 square miles (7.0 km2) (0.8%) is water, according to the United States Census Bureau.
Here is a list of cities, towns, places, and villages in Monroe County, Kentucky: