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  1. Fulton County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Kentucky, with the Mississippi River forming its western boundary. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,515. [1] Its county seat is Hickman and its largest city is Fulton. [2]

  2. Fulton is a home rule-class city in Fulton County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,357 at the 2020 census, down from 2,445 at the 2010 census. It was once known as the "Banana Capital of the World", because 70% of imported bananas to the U.S. used to be shipped through the city.

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  3. Fulton County's location on the Mississippi River in the southwest corner of Kentucky fits well with its namesake's fame and the mode of travel and trade that came to dominate that body of water during the nineteenth century.

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  5. Being the westernmost county in Kentucky, Fulton County is located on the Mississippi River. Fulton County derived its name from Robert Fulton, the inventor of the first commercial steamboat. Due to the imprecise early surveying of Kentucky's southern border, Fulton County is divided into two non-contiguous parts.

  6. The Kentucky Bend, variously called the New Madrid Bend, Madrid Bend, Bessie Bend, or Bubbleland, [1] [2] is an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky, encircled by the states of Tennessee and Missouri.

  7. About Us | City of Fulton, Fulton County, Kentucky. The History of Fulton. Founded 1859, Incorporated 1872. The Chickasaw Indians were the first known inhabitants of what is now Western Kentucky and Northwestern Tennessee with the name, Pontotoc, which means the “Land of the Hanging Grapes.”

  8. Fulton County, Kentucky has 205.9 square miles of land area and is the 98th largest county in. Kentucky. by total area. Fulton County, Kentucky is bordered by. Mississippi County, Missouri. , Obion County, Tennessee. , New Madrid County, Missouri. , Lake County, Tennessee. , and. Hickman County, Kentucky. . Share Profile.

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