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Calvert City is a home rule-class city in Marshall County, Kentucky, in the Jackson Purchase region of western Kentucky.

The city was named for Potilla Willis Calvert, who built his home, Oak Hill, in 1860 and about a decade later gave part of his land to a new railroad on the condition that a station be built near his home; that station became the start of the town.

Calvert City was incorporated on March 18, 1871; the railroad station and post office long used the shorter name Calvert until the federal Board on Geographic Names adopted the longer Calvert City form in 1957.

The Ohio River flood of 1937 severely damaged the city's business district and much of its residential area.

In the 1940s, construction of nearby Kentucky Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority brought plentiful electric power that drew industrial plants, mostly chemical manufacturers, to locate between the city and the Tennessee River; local merchant Luther Draffen was instrumental in attracting the dam and the plants.

Calvert City's documented history includes a period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a sundown town, when African Americans were excluded from living there.

The 2020 census counted 2,514 residents in Calvert City, with 1,068 households and 1,348 housing units.

The city covers about 18.5 square miles in total, of which about 17.9 square miles are land, making it unusually large in area for its population.

Calvert City sits on the south bank of the Tennessee River about 13 miles upstream from the river's mouth at the Ohio River, and its city limits extend southeast to the western shore of Kentucky Lake.

The city is an industrial center with 16 industrial plants, mostly chemical manufacturers alongside steel and metallurgical plants, that employ workers from across western Kentucky.