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Ruth is located in Caldwell County.
Ruth is 140 feet [42.67 m] above sea level.<1>
Time Zone: Ruth lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.
Communities that are also named Ruth can be found in:
While we we don't have population counts for Ruth, we do have some information about the surrounding area on the Census Page for Ruth).
The following is a sample of nearby communities:
| | Community | Direction | Distance<3> | 2008<4> Population | Change Since 2000 |
| | Cadiz | S | 16 mi [25.75 km] | 2,563 | 8.01% increase |
| | Crofton | E | 15 mi [24.14 km] | 962 | 14.8% increase |
| | Dawson Springs | NE | 5 mi [8.05 km] | 2,903 | 2.58% decrease |
| | Earlington | NE | 17 mi [27.36 km] | 1,571 | 4.73% decrease |
| | Eddyville | W | 18 mi [28.97 km] | 2,416 | 2.81% increase |
| | Fredonia | W | 18 mi [28.97 km] | 414 | 1.43% decrease |
To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Ruth.
Search for Local BusinessesPeople have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Ruth. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.
If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).
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Footnotes
| <1> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Ruth - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation |
| <2> | We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Ruth, please let us know so that we can make corrections. - Return to Citation |
| <3> | Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Ruth and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation |
| <4> | Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Ruth. - Return to Citation |
| <5> | All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation |
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