[2] Carter County is in the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.

[3] It was named after Colonel William Grayson Carter, a Kentucky state Senator.

[4] The county seat is named for his uncle, Robert Grayson.

22.30% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.80% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Carter County leaned increasingly Republican during the 2010s, with Donald Trump dramatically shifting it to the right in 2016.

[21] Media related to Carter County, Kentucky at Wikimedia Commons