Living in Paducah
Paducah is located in western Kentucky on the Ohio River and Interstate 24 between Nashville and St. Louis. A patchwork of art, history and culture, Paducah is the commercial, cultural and medical center for its 30,000 residents and for about 350,000 people in the four-state area.
One of Paducah’s favorite native sons, Irvin Cobb, aptly described the friendly charm of our city as “an agreeable blend of western kindness and northern enterprise, superimposed on a southern background.”
Paducah attracts thousands of international visitors each April at the American Quilter’s Society Quilt Show and Contest. Tourism is important year-round in the historic riverfront downtown with Downtown After Dinner, the Dogwood Trail, Summer Festival and Barbecue on the River.
William Clark, of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition, platted a town in 1827 at this northernmost point of what is now the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway.
