Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Central City, KY

Central City is a home rule-class city in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and it is the largest city in the county.

The population of Central City was 5,819 at the 2020 census, and the census counted 2,034 households in the city.

Central City began in 1826 as Morehead's Horse Mill, a settlement named for local resident Charles S. Morehead's steam-powered gristmill.

Central City grew after the Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad arrived in 1870, and a post office opened in 1871 under the name Owensboro Junction.

Central City was incorporated in 1873 as Stroud City, after landowner John Stroud, and was reincorporated in 1882 as Central City for the du Ponts' Central Coal and Iron Company.

Central City sits atop the No. 9 bituminous coal seam, and old underground mine shafts dating to the early 1900s still crisscross beneath the city; a 1912 mine explosion there killed five workers.

Central City was the home of the Everly Brothers, and from 1988 to 2002 it hosted the Everly Brothers Homecoming on Labor Day weekend, an event that continues today as a cruise-in and car show.

The Muhlenberg County Rail Trail, a paved trail between Central City and Greenville on an old Paducah and Louisville Railway route, opened on October 20, 2000, and was Kentucky's most extensive rail-trail conversion at the time.

Central City houses the Kentucky Women's Hall of Fame inside the Central City Public Library on East Broad Street.

Central City is home to Central City Elementary School and to the Muhlenberg Campus of Madisonville Community College, which was completed in 2001.