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–Cape Girardeau 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 Clay Edwards Gallatin Hamilton Hardin Lawrence Richland Saline Wabash Wayne White

Indiana counties Crawford Daviess Dubois Gibson Knox Martin Orange Perry Pike Posey Spencer Vanderburgh Warrick

Kentucky counties Breckinridge Crittenden Daviess Grayson Hancock Henderson Hopkins McLean Muhlenberg Ohio Union Webster

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 WSIL-TV Channel 3.1 ABC Harrisburg, IL – not part of the "Tri-State" viewing area; one of the principal stations of the Paducah–Carbondale–Cape Girardeau TV market 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	Western Coal Fields
3	Henderson	Kentucky	28,757	Henderson	Western Coal Fields
4	Madisonville	Kentucky	19,591	Hopkins	Western Coal Fields
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	Western Coal Fields
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 km^2	358,676
Owensboro, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area	Owensboro	Kentucky	Daviess, Hancock McLean	Indiana: Perry, Spencer Kentucky: Breckinridge, Ohio	931 sq mi 2,410 km^2	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 km^2	31,499
Harrisburg, IL Micropolitan Area	Harrisburg	Illinois	Saline	387 sq mi 1,002 km^2	24,913
Jasper, IN Micropolitan Area	Jasper	Indiana	Dubois Pike	776 sq mi 2010 km^2	54,734
Madisonville, KY Micropolitan Area	Madisonville	Kentucky	Hopkins	554 sq mi 1,430 km^2	46,920
Vincennes, IN-IL Micropolitan Area	Lawrenceville Vincennes	Illinois Indiana	Knox Lawrence	898 sq mi 2,330 km^2	55,273
Washington, IN Micropolitan Area	Washington	Indiana	Daviess	437 sq mi 1,130 km^2	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 km^2)
Edwards	Albion	6,721	223 sq mi (580 km^2)
Gallatin	Shawneetown	5,589	328 sq mi (850 km^2)
Hamilton	McLeansboro	8,457	436 sq mi (1,130 km^2)
Lawrence	Lawrenceville	16,833	374 sq mi (970 km^2)
Richland	Olney	16,233	362 sq mi (940 km^2)
Saline	Harrisburg	24,913	387 sq mi (1,000 km^2)
Wabash	Mt. Carmel	11,947	232 sq mi (600 km^2)
Wayne	Fairfield	16,760	716 sq mi (1,850 km^2)
White	Carmi	14,665	502 sq mi (1,300 km^2)

Southwestern Indiana

Population Total: 474,251

County Name	County Seat	Population (2010)	Area
Daviess	Washington	31,648	437 sq mi (1,130 km^2)
Dubois	Jasper	41,889	435 sq mi (1,130 km^2)
Gibson	Princeton	33,503	526 sq mi (1,360 km^2)
Knox	Vincennes	38,440	524 sq mi (1,360 km^2)
Martin	Shoals	10,334	341 sq mi (880 km^2)
Perry	Tell City	19,338	386 sq mi (1,000 km^2)
Pike	Petersburg	12,845	342 sq mi (890 km^2)
Posey	Mt. Vernon	25,910	429 sq mi (1,110 km^2)
Spencer	Rockport	20,952	401 sq mi (1,040 km^2)
Vanderburgh	Evansville	179,703	236 sq mi (610 km^2)
Warrick	Boonville	59,689	424 sq mi (1,100 km^2)

Western Coal Fields (Kentucky)

Population Total: 291,891

County Name	County Seat	Population (2010)	Area
Daviess	Owensboro	96,656	476 sq mi (1,230 km^2)
Hancock	Hawesville	8,565	199 sq mi (520 km^2)
Henderson	Henderson	46,250	467 sq mi (1,210 km^2)
Hopkins	Madisonville	46,920	554 sq mi (1,430 km^2)
McLean	Calhoun	9,531	256 sq mi (660 km^2)
Muhlenberg	Greenville	31,499	479 sq mi (1,240 km^2)
Ohio	Hartford	23,842	597 sq mi (1,550 km^2)
Union	Morganfield	15,007	363 sq mi (940 km^2)
Webster	Dixon	13,621	336 sq mi (870 km^2)

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.

See also

• Evansville Metropolitan Area
• Owensboro Metropolitan Area
• Jasper Micropolitan Area
• Southwestern Indiana
• Southern Illinois
• Western Kentucky