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| | KCOJ - Hickman County, Kentucky |
 | | Hickman County, the seventy-first county in order of formation, is located in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky and is bounded by the Mississippi River, Carlisle, Graves, and Fulton counties, and the Tennessee state line. |
 | | Because of a change in the main channel of the Mississippi, a small section of the county, known as Wolf Island, lies to the west of the river and borders Missouri. |
 | | The population of the county was 6,264 in 1970; 6,065 in 1980; and 5,566 in 1990. |
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