Dycusburg, Kentucky

Dycusburg is a Crittenden county community on the Cumberland River about 16 miles southwest of Marion. It was a river port established in the early nineteenth century and named for a local family. At one time it had stores, hotels, banks, warehouses, and a distillery. The population probably peaked around 1900. There were fires in 1906 and 1907 that destroyed much of the town and river shipping was replaced by the railroads in the early twentieth century.

Dycusburg was incorporated in 1847 and dissolved before 2020, perhaps as early as 1981.

A Dycusburgh post office opened in 1848 and was renamed Dycusburg in 1894.

The population in 2010 was 26.

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