Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky tri-state area

Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky
tri-state area
The Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky tri-state area within their states. Dark shaded counties were included only by WTVW prior to DT. Common names: Tri-State Area Wabash Valley (Illinois, Indiana) Ohio Valley (All three) Green Valley (Kentucky)
Largest city 10,000+ cities	Illinois Harrisburg Indiana Evansville Vincennes • Jasper Princeton • Washington Kentucky Owensboro Henderson • Madisonville
MSAs	Evansville • Owensboro
µSAs	Central City • Harrisburg • Jasper Madisonville • Vincennes • Washington

The Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky tri-state area is a tri-state area where the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky intersect. The area is defined mainly by the television viewing area and consists of ten Illinois counties, eleven Indiana counties, and nine Kentucky counties.

The 2010 population estimate of the 30-county core region is 911,613 people. Evansville, Indiana, with approximately 118,000 people, is the largest city and the principal hub for both the Evansville Metropolitan Area and Southwestern Indiana. Owensboro, Kentucky, with approximately 60,000 people, is the second-largest city and the secondary hub as well as the hub for the Owensboro Metropolitan Area. The other seven cities with 10,000 or more people include Harrisburg, Illinois; Henderson, Kentucky; Madisonville, Kentucky; Princeton, Indiana; Vincennes, Indiana; Washington, Indiana; and Jasper, Indiana. The dissecting point between the three states are the Wabash and Ohio Rivers which meet near the tripoint of Gallatin County, Illinois, Posey County, Indiana, and Union County, Kentucky.

Some of the counties along the edges may or may not consider themselves as part of the area. One of the Evansville TV stations (CW 7 WTVW) also includes Hardin County, Illinois, Crawford County, Indiana, Orange County, Indiana, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, Crittenden County, Kentucky and Grayson County, Kentucky as part of its viewing area as well as the below-mentioned counties because, prior to the advent of digital television, the station broadcast on the VHF band (it now broadcasts on RF channel 28, in the UHF band). This was also due to its transmitter being located near Chandler, Indiana in Warrick County as opposed to in Henderson County, like the other stations. (See map on right.)

In addition, the counties on the eastern edge of the area are included in Kentuckiana, the northern edge counties are included in the Terre Haute viewing area and the western edge counties are either included in the Paducah-Carbondale or the St. Louis viewing areas and the southern edge are included in the Nashville-Clarksville viewing area.

The counties

Note: Italicized counties were included by only WTVW prior to DTV. See above map.

Illinois counties

Indiana counties

Kentucky counties

Media

The major local broadcast television stations are:

WEHT Channel 25.1 ABC Henderson, KY
WEVV Channel 44.1 CBS / 44.2 (FOX) Evansville, IN
WFIE Channel 14.1 NBC / 14.2 (XTRA) / 14.3 (This TV) Evansville, IN
WNIN Channel 9.1 (PBS) / 9.2 (Local) / 9.3 (WNIN-FM) Evansville, IN
WYYW-CD Channel 36.1 America One Evansville, IN
WTVW Channel 7.1 CW "Local 7" Evansville, IN

The other area broadcast television stations are:

W06BD LP Channel 6 Princeton, IN
WJTS-CD Channel 18.1 America One Jasper, IN
WKOH KET 31.1 - 31.3 Owensboro, KY
WVUT Channel 22.1 PBS / 22.2 (Create TV) Vincennes, IN

The major local broadcast FM radio stations are:

89.1 WVJC Mount Carmel, IL
91.1 WVUB Vincennes, IN
92.5 WBKR Owensboro, KY
93.9 WKTG Madisonville, KY
94.9 WYNG Mount Carmel, IL
96.1 WSTO Owensboro, KY / Evansville, IN
98.1 WRAY Princeton, IN
99.5 WKDQ Henderson, KY
100.5 WSJD Mount Carmel, IL
101.9 WQXQ Central City, KY / Owensboro, KY
103.1 WGBF Henderson, KY
104.1 WIKY Evansville, IN
105.3 WJLT Evansville, IN
106.1 WDKS Newburgh, IN
107.1 WJPS Boonville, IN
107.5 WABX Evansville, IN

Fifteen largest cities

The Metropolitan and Micropolitan Areas of the Tri-State Area

Population Rank	City	State	Population 2010	County	Region
1	Evansville	Indiana	117,429	Vanderburgh	Southwestern Indiana
2	Owensboro	Kentucky	57,265	Daviess	Northwestern Kentucky
3	Henderson	Kentucky	28,757	Henderson	Northwestern Kentucky
4	Madisonville	Kentucky	19,591	Hopkins	Northwestern Kentucky
5	Vincennes	Indiana	18,423	Knox	Southwestern Indiana
6	Jasper	Indiana	15,038	Dubois	Southwestern Indiana
7	Washington	Indiana	11,509	Daviess	Southwestern Indiana
8	Princeton	Indiana	10,974	Gibson	Southwestern Indiana
9	Harrisburg	Illinois	9,638	Saline	Southeastern Illinois
10	Olney	Illinois	8,631	Richland	Southeastern Illinois
11	Mount Carmel	Illinois	8,282	Wabash	Southeastern Illinois
12	Tell City	Indiana	7,272	Perry	Southwestern Indiana
13	Mount Vernon	Indiana	7,186	Posey	Southwestern Indiana
14	Boonville	Indiana	6,834	Warrick	Southwestern Indiana
15	Central City	Kentucky	5,893	Muhlenberg	Northwestern Kentucky
15	Huntingburg	Indiana	5,594	Dubois	Southwestern Indiana

All of the cities on the list are county seats of their respective counties except Huntingburg, Indiana and Central City, Kentucky.

Newburgh is currently undergoing annexation plans that will incorporate many of the surrounding developments which will increase the population to as much as 12,000 people putting the town right behind Jasper on the above list. Also Newburgh would be the only town on the list.

Metropolitan and micropolitan areas

Metropolitan areas

Name	Primary City or Cities	State or States	County or Counties	Non-Area County or Counties Influenced	Area	2010 Population
Evansville, IN-KY Metropolitan Statistical Area	Evansville Henderson Princeton	Indiana Kentucky	Gibson, Posey Vanderburgh, Warrick Henderson, Webster	Illinois: Wabash, White Indiana: Pike, Spencer Kentucky: Union	2,367 sq mi 6,130 km²	358,676
Owensboro, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area	Owensboro	Kentucky	Daviess, Hancock McLean	Indiana: Perry, Spencer Kentucky: Breckinridge, Ohio	931 sq mi 2,410 km²	114,752

Micropolitan areas

Name	Primary City	State or States	County or Counties	Area	2010 Population
Central City, KY Micropolitan Area	Central City Greenville	Kentucky	Muhlenberg	479 sq mi 1,241 km²	31,499
Harrisburg, IL Micropolitan Area	Harrisburg	Illinois	Saline	387 sq mi 1,002 km²	24,913
Jasper, IN Micropolitan Area	Jasper	Indiana	Dubois Pike	776 sq mi 2010 km²	54,734
Madisonville, KY Micropolitan Area	Madisonville	Kentucky	Hopkins	554 sq mi 1,430 km²	46,920
Vincennes, IN-IL Micropolitan Area	Lawrenceville Vincennes	Illinois Indiana	Knox Lawrence	898 sq mi 2,330 km²	55,273
Washington, IN Micropolitan Area	Washington	Indiana	Daviess	437 sq mi 1,130 km²	31,648

Core counties

Southeast Illinois

Population Total: 135,933

County Name	County Seat	Population (2010)	Area
Clay	Louisville	13,815	437 sq mi (1,130 km²)
Edwards	Albion	6,721	223 sq mi (580 km²)
Gallatin	Shawneetown	5,589	328 sq mi (850 km²)
Hamilton	McLeansboro	8,457	436 sq mi (1,130 km²)
Lawrence	Lawrenceville	16,833	374 sq mi (970 km²)
Richland	Olney	16,233	362 sq mi (940 km²)
Saline	Harrisburg	24,913	387 sq mi (1,000 km²)
Wabash	Mt. Carmel	11,947	232 sq mi (600 km²)
Wayne	Fairfield	16,760	716 sq mi (1,850 km²)
White	Carmi	14,665	502 sq mi (1,300 km²)

Southwestern Indiana

Population Total: 474,251

County Name	County Seat	Population (2010)	Area
Daviess	Washington	31,648	437 sq mi (1,130 km²)
Dubois	Jasper	41,889	435 sq mi (1,130 km²)
Gibson	Princeton	33,503	526 sq mi (1,360 km²)
Knox	Vincennes	38,440	524 sq mi (1,360 km²)
Martin	Shoals	10,334	341 sq mi (880 km²)
Perry	Tell City	19,338	386 sq mi (1,000 km²)
Pike	Petersburg	12,845	342 sq mi (890 km²)
Posey	Mt. Vernon	25,910	429 sq mi (1,110 km²)
Spencer	Rockport	20,952	401 sq mi (1,040 km²)
Vanderburgh	Evansville	179,703	236 sq mi (610 km²)
Warrick	Boonville	59,689	424 sq mi (1,100 km²)

Northwest Kentucky

Population Total: 291,891

County Name	County Seat	Population (2010)	Area
Daviess	Owensboro	96,656	476 sq mi (1,230 km²)
Hancock	Hawesville	8,565	199 sq mi (520 km²)
Henderson	Henderson	46,250	467 sq mi (1,210 km²)
Hopkins	Madisonville	46,920	554 sq mi (1,430 km²)
McLean	Calhoun	9,531	256 sq mi (660 km²)
Muhlenberg	Greenville	31,499	479 sq mi (1,240 km²)
Ohio	Hartford	23,842	597 sq mi (1,550 km²)
Union	Morganfield	15,007	363 sq mi (940 km²)
Webster	Dixon	13,621	336 sq mi (870 km²)

Trivia

The Two Daviess Counties within the Tri-State Area.

There are two counties named Daviess in the Tri-State Area, Daviess County, Indiana (pronounced Da'Veez), and Daviess County, Kentucky (pronounced Da'Vis). Both counties are named for Maj. Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, U.S. District Attorney for Kentucky who prosecuted Aaron Burr.

The Region of Southwestern Indiana

Central Time Counties	26 Gibson 62 Perry 65 Posey 74 Spencer 82 Vanderburgh 87 Warrick

Eastern Time Counties	14 Daviess 19 Dubois 42 Knox 51 Martin 63 Pike

County Seats	Boonville (87) Evansville (82) Jasper (19) Mt. Vernon (65) Petersburg (63) Princeton (26) Rockport (74) Shoals (51) Tell City (62) Vincennes (42) Washington (14)

Metropolitan & Micropolitan Areas	Evansville Metropolitan Area Jasper - Pike County Micropolitan Area Princeton Micropolitan Area Vincennes Micropolitan Area Warrick County Micropolitan Area Washington Micropolitan Area

Colleges and Universities	University of Evansville University of Southern Indiana Oakland City University (Evansville, Oakland City) Vincennes University (Vincennes, Jasper, Fort Branch) Ivy Tech Comm. College (Evansville, Princeton) ITT Technical Institute (Newburgh) Harrison College

Evansville, IN–KY Metropolitan Statistical Area

Central City	Evansville

Municipalities with population over 5,000 in 2010	Boonville Henderson Mt. Vernon Princeton

Municipalities with population 1,000-5,000 in 2010	Chandler Darmstadt Fort Branch Haubstadt Newburgh New Harmony Oakland City Owensville Poseyville Providence

Indiana Counties	Gibson Posey Vanderburgh Warrick

Kentucky Counties	Henderson Webster

State of Illinois

Springfield (capital)

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Regions	American Bottom Central Illinois Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area Chicago metropolitan area Corn Belt Driftless Area Forgottonia Fox Valley Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky tri-state area Metro East Metro Lakeland Mississippi Alluvial Plain North Shore Northern Illinois Northwestern Illinois Peoria metropolitan area Quad Cities River Bend Rockford metropolitan area Southern Illinois Streatorland Wabash Valley

Cities, towns and villages	Alton/Granite City/Edwardsville Arlington Heights/Palatine Aurora/Naperville/Oswego/Plainfield Bartlett/Hanover Park/Streamwood Belleville/East St. Louis/Collinsville/O'Fallon Berwyn/Cicero Bloomington/Normal Bolingbrook/Romeoville Buffalo Grove/Wheeling Calumet City Canton Carbondale Carol Stream/Glendale Heights Centralia Champaign/Urbana Charleston/Mattoon Chicago Chicago Heights Crystal Lake/Algonquin Danville Decatur DeKalb/Sycamore Des Plaines/Mount Prospect/Park Ridge Dixon Downers Grove/Woodridge Effingham Elgin/Carpentersville Elmhurst/Lombard/Addison Evanston/Skokie Freeport Galesburg Glenview/Northbrook Harrisburg Jacksonville Joliet Kankakee/Bradley/Bourbonnais Lincoln Macomb Marion/Herrin Moline/East Moline/Rock Island Mount Vernon Mundelein Oak Lawn Oak Park Orland Park/Tinley Park Ottawa/Streator/LaSalle/Peru Peoria/Pekin/East Peoria/Morton/Washington Pontiac Quincy Rochelle Rockford/Belvidere/Machesney Park/Loves Park St. Charles Schaumburg/Hoffman Estates/Elk Grove Village Springfield Sterling/Rock Falls Taylorville Waukegan/North Chicago/Gurnee Wheaton

Counties	Adams Alexander Bond Boone Brown Bureau Calhoun Carroll Cass Champaign Christian Clark Clay Clinton Coles Cook Crawford Cumberland DeKalb DeWitt Douglas DuPage Edgar Edwards Effingham Fayette Ford Franklin Fulton Gallatin Greene Grundy Hamilton Hancock Hardin Henderson Henry Iroquois Jackson Jasper Jefferson Jersey Jo Daviess Johnson Kane Kankakee Kendall Knox LaSalle Lake Lawrence Lee Livingston Logan Macon Macoupin Madison Marion Marshall Mason Massac McDonough McHenry McLean Menard Mercer Monroe Montgomery Morgan Moultrie Ogle Peoria Perry Piatt Pike Pope Pulaski Putnam Randolph Richland Rock Island Saline Sangamon Schuyler Scott Shelby St. Clair Stark Stephenson Tazewell Union Vermilion Wabash Warren Washington Wayne White Whiteside Will Williamson Winnebago Woodford

State of Indiana

Indianapolis (capital)

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Society	Culture Crime Demographics Economy Education Politics Party strength

Regions	Central Indiana East Central Indiana Illinois-Indiana-Kentucky Tri-State Area Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio Tri-State Area Michiana Northern Indiana Northwest Indiana Southern Indiana Southwestern Indiana Wabash Valley

Largest cities	Indianapolis Fort Wayne Evansville South Bend Carmel Fishers Bloomington Hammond Gary Muncie Lafayette Terre Haute Kokomo Anderson Noblesville Elkhart Greenwood Mishawaka Lawrence Jeffersonville Columbus Richmond New Albany Portage Michigan City Valparaiso Goshen Westfield East Chicago Marion West Lafayette Hobart Crown Point Franklin La Porte Seymour Logansport New Castle Connersville Vincennes Bedford Jasper Washington Princeton

Largest towns	Merrillville Schererville Clarksville Plainfield Highland Munster

Counties	Adams Allen Bartholomew Benton Blackford Boone Brown Carroll Cass Clark Clay Clinton Crawford Daviess Dearborn Decatur DeKalb Delaware Dubois Elkhart Fayette Floyd Fountain Franklin Fulton Gibson Grant Greene Hamilton Hancock Harrison Hendricks Henry Howard Huntington Jackson Jasper Jay Jefferson Jennings Johnson Knox Kosciusko LaGrange Lake LaPorte Lawrence Madison Marion Marshall Martin Miami Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Noble Ohio Orange Owen Parke Perry Pike Porter Posey Pulaski Putnam Randolph Ripley Rush Saint Joseph Scott Shelby Spencer Starke Steuben Sullivan Switzerland Tippecanoe Tipton Union Vanderburgh Vermillion Vigo Wabash Warren Warrick Washington Wayne Wells White Whitley

Commonwealth of Kentucky

Frankfort (capital)

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Society	Culture Crime Demographics Economy Education Politics Sports

Regions	Allegheny Plateau The Bluegrass Central Kentucky Cumberland Mountains Cumberland Plateau Eastern Kentucky Coalfield Highland Rim The Knobs Mississippi Plain Northern Kentucky Pennyroyal Plateau The Purchase Ridge-and-Valley South Central Kentucky Tennessee Valley Western Coal Fields

25 largest cities	Louisville Lexington Bowling Green Owensboro Covington Hopkinsville Richmond Florence Georgetown Henderson Elizabethtown Nicholasville Jeffersontown Frankfort Paducah Independence Radcliff Ashland Madisonville Winchester Erlanger Murray St. Matthews Fort Thomas Danville

Metropolitan areas	Ashland Bowling Green Clarksville, TN Elizabethtown Evansville Lexington–Fayette Louisville – Jefferson County Northern Kentucky Owensboro

Counties	Adair Allen Anderson Ballard Barren Bath Bell Boone Bourbon Boyd Boyle Bracken Breathitt Breckinridge Bullitt Butler Caldwell Calloway Campbell Carlisle Carroll Carter Casey Christian Clark Clay Clinton Crittenden Cumberland Daviess Edmonson Elliott Estill Fayette Fleming Floyd Franklin Fulton Gallatin Garrard Grant Graves Grayson Green Greenup Hancock Hardin Harlan Harrison Hart Henderson Henry Hickman Hopkins Jackson Jefferson Jessamine Johnson Kenton Knott Knox LaRue Laurel Lawrence Lee Leslie Letcher Lewis Lincoln Livingston Logan Lyon Madison Magoffin Marion Marshall Martin Mason McCracken McCreary McLean Meade Menifee Mercer Metcalfe Monroe Montgomery Morgan Muhlenberg Nelson Nicholas Ohio Oldham Owen Owsley Pendleton Perry Pike Powell Pulaski Robertson Rockcastle Rowan Russell Scott Shelby Simpson Spencer Taylor Todd Trigg Trimble Union Warren Washington Wayne Webster Whitley Wolfe Woodford

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