Place:Berea, Madison, Kentucky, United States

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NameBerea
Alt namesBareasource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS21001856
TypeCity
Coordinates37.577°N 84.294°W
Located inMadison, Kentucky, United States
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Berea is a home rule-class city in Madison County, Kentucky, in the United States. The town is best known for its art festivals, historic restaurants and buildings, and as the home to Berea College, a private liberal arts college. The population was 15,539 at the 2020 census. It is one of the fastest-growing towns in Kentucky, having increased by 27.4% since 2000. The name appears to come from the King James Bible, being a province in Macedonia mentioned in Acts 17:11, where its Jewish citizens were more faithful in spreading the gospel of the Apostles, but also searched the Scriptures each day to check them, in obedience to Isaiah 8:20. Berea is a principal city of the Richmond−Berea Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Madison and Rockcastle counties. It was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1890.

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