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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · KY

Canal

ReservableBookable through October 25, and from March 26 through April 16.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 9 of the next 30 nights read 16:03 UTC
A night: $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 115All of them booked ahead

Photos · D. Landis

99 ftLongest rig

410 ftElevation

314 ftWater · Lake Barkley

3.8 miSE of Calvert City, KY

79%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices

In the agency’s own words

Situated along a peninsula between the lush shorelines of Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake, Canal Campground offers modern camping and provides the ideal setting to enjoy nature at its best with family and friends. Visitors can enjoy a stunning view of the Barkley Dam and boats traveling through the canal from the comfort of their campsite. The campground faces Barkley Lake, and the shore of Kentucky Lake is a brisk one-mile walk across the canal. Keep reading

Recreation

From water sports to wildlife viewing to hiking and biking, Canal Campground is the perfect setting for outdoor activities. Eagle nests can be spotted throughout the grounds, and its not unlikely for visitors to encounter deer and other wildlife. A short hiking trail allows campers to enjoy the outdoor scenery at their leisure. Fishing is also a popular pastime, and during warm months bass and catfish are plentiful in both lakes.

Facilities

A designated swimming beach and a boat ramp help campers enjoy the lake. Picnic pavilions and a playground create a perfect setting for a party or family get-together. For group camping, several sites surrounding the pavilion can be reserved, and a fishing float nearby allows groups to go out on the lake together. Electric hook-ups, showers and flush restrooms create a comfortable camping experience.

Natural Features

Lake Barkley, as part of a dam project at the Cumberland River, spans 134 miles along the Kentucky landscape, offering countless recreational activities to visitors. The canal connects Lake Barley with Kentucky Lake, forming one of the greatest freshwater recreational complexes in the country.

Nearby Attractions

Grand Rivers, a short drive from the campground, has several restaurants and two public marinas.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District firewood policy is now in effect and seeks the public’s cooperation to prevent the spread of forest insects and disease at campgrounds in the Cumberland River Basin. The firewood policy requires visitors at Lake Barkley’s campgrounds to use only firewood that has been certified as heat-treated by U.S. Department of Agriculture or state natural resource agency.

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 115 · 1 tent-only, 1 group
Hookups: 115 electric, 114 water, 17 sewer
Longest rig: 99 ft
Paved pads: 24 of 115
Accessible sites: 22
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…together. Electric hook-ups, showers and flush restrooms create a comfortable camping experience. Natural…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; Shower/Bath Type states a shower on 1 campsite record(s) that are not a cabin, of this campground's 115
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description and counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Lake, River, Beach; Fishing; Swimming
Night sky · 58th darkest of 60 in KY: Bortle 4

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

8 of 224 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:03 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBookedClosed

Booking windowThrough October 25Bookable now through October 25, 2026, the end of this reservable season, and again for March 26, 2027 through April 16, 2027. Today at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$20–$40plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$48–$88DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 16

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$20–$40

Tent Only Electric$20

Standard Electric$30

Standard Electric-Water Front$32

Standard Electric-Sewer$40

Group area, a night$256

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Mar 27, 2026 to Oct 25, 2026.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$28–$48

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$48–$88

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$40 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

Who keeps the booking fee

The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →

How we know this receipt · 5

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

115 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 115 mapped sites

61 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomPrimitive 020 130 ftLoop VIEW 117 125 ftFisherman's Row 021 115 ftLoop CANA 084 115 ftLoop VIEW 113 106 ft

Least roomFisherman's Row 030 27 ftFisherman's Row 031 27 ftLoop BRPT 088 28 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 115 sites

115 of 115 sites located

Tent only1RV / electric113Group1

053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 084 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 NASH1 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 036 037A 037B 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 115 of the 115 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.


Beach	053	standard electric	34 ft	50 amp		64 ft	335 ft	$30–$40
Beach	054	standard electric	34 ft	50 amp		65 ft	295 ft	$30–$40
Beach	055	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		64 ft	275 ft	$30–$40
Beach	056	standard electric	38 ft	50 amp		61 ft	230 ft	$30–$40
Beach	057	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		56 ft	170 ft	$30–$40
Beach	058	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		73 ft	199 ft	$30–$40
Beach	059	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		56 ft	121 ft	$30–$40
Beach	060	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		42 ft	72 ft	$30–$40
Beach	061	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		42 ft	86 ft	$30–$40
Beach	062	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		81 ft	105 ft	$30–$40
Beach	063	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		58 ft	175 ft	$30–$40
Beach	064	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		61 ft	152 ft	$30–$40
Beach	065	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		58 ft	221 ft	$30–$40
Beach	066	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		64 ft	242 ft	$30–$40
Beach	067	standard electric	34 ft	50 amp		61 ft	175 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	085	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		90 ft	251 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	086	standard electric	25 ft	50 amp		58 ft	248 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	087	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		58 ft	265 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	088	standard electric	43 ft	50 amp		28 ft	210 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	089	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp		28 ft	187 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	090	standard electric	57 ft	50 amp		31 ft	157 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	091	standard electric	69 ft	50 amp		49 ft	117 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	092	standard electric	99 ft	50 amp		58 ft	105 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	093	standard electric	92 ft	50 amp	yes	61 ft	98 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	094	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp	yes	35 ft	125 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	095	standard electric	63 ft	50 amp	yes	35 ft	92 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	096	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp	yes	33 ft	114 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	097	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	yes	33 ft	115 ft	$30–$40
BRPT	098	standard electric	62 ft	50 amp		81 ft	142 ft	$30–$40
CANA	084	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		115 ft	95 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	021	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		115 ft	208 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	022	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		66 ft	222 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	023	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		66 ft	139 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	024	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		39 ft	136 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	025	standard electric	67 ft	50 amp		61 ft	197 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	026	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		39 ft	112 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	027	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		44 ft	183 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	028	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		40 ft	121 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	029	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		44 ft	195 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	030	standard electric	24 ft	50 amp		27 ft	127 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	031	standard electric	33 ft	50 amp		27 ft	119 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	032	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp		53 ft	194 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	033	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		54 ft	136 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	034	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		62 ft	206 ft	$30–$40
Fisherman's Row	035	standard electric	33 ft	Electricity Hookup	yes	54 ft	158 ft	$30–$40
GRUP	NASH1	group standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	yes	72 ft	60 ft	$256
Hill	068	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		71 ft	133 ft	$30–$40
Hill	069	standard electric	44 ft	50 amp		65 ft	193 ft	$30–$40
Hill	070	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		54 ft	175 ft	$30–$40
Hill	071	standard electric	37 ft	50 amp		49 ft	192 ft	$30–$40
Hill	072	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp		49 ft	178 ft	$30–$40
Hill	073	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		53 ft	104 ft	$30–$40
Hill	074	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		50 ft	78 ft	$30–$40
Hill	075	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		50 ft	60 ft	$30–$40
Hill	076	standard electric	32 ft	50 amp		38 ft	71 ft	$30–$40
Hill	077	standard electric	38 ft	50 amp		38 ft	52 ft	$30–$40
Hill	078	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		67 ft	46 ft	$30–$40
Hill	079	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		73 ft	57 ft	$30–$40
Hill	080	standard electric	32 ft	50 amp		49 ft	128 ft	$30–$40
Hill	081	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp		58 ft	168 ft	$30–$40
Hill	082	standard electric	38 ft	50 amp		49 ft	170 ft	$30–$40
Hill	083	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		58 ft	213 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	001	standard electric	32 ft	30 amp		52 ft	342 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	002	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp		52 ft	292 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	003	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		62 ft	243 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	004	standard electric	20 ft	30 amp		89 ft	118 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	005	standard electric	22 ft	30 amp		64 ft	122 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	006	standard electric	20 ft	30 amp		64 ft	68 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	007	standard electric	18 ft	30 amp		82 ft	152 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	008	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		49 ft	166 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	009	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		49 ft	201 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	010	standard electric	22 ft	30 amp		64 ft	268 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	011	tent only electric		30 amp		66 ft	269 ft	$20
Primitive	012	standard electric	22 ft	30 amp		64 ft	320 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	013	standard electric	22 ft	30 amp		96 ft	328 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	014	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp		57 ft	304 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	015	standard electric	20 ft	30 amp		79 ft	379 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	016	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp		57 ft	340 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	017	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp		62 ft	447 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	018	standard electric	22 ft	30 amp		62 ft	471 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	019	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp		73 ft	420 ft	$30–$40
Primitive	020	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		130 ft	541 ft	$30–$40
The Flats	103	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	yes	62 ft	330 ft	$30–$40
The Flats	104	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	yes	62 ft	271 ft	$30–$40
The Flats	105	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	yes	63 ft	211 ft	$30–$40
The Flats	106	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	yes	76 ft	139 ft	$30–$40
The Flats	107	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	yes	62 ft	111 ft	$30–$40
The Flats	108	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	yes	55 ft	169 ft	$30–$40
The Flats	109	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	yes	55 ft	222 ft	$30–$40
The Flats	110	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp	yes	65 ft	282 ft	$30–$40
VIEW	111	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp	yes	65 ft	1,104 ft	$30–$40
VIEW	112	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	yes	65 ft	1,088 ft	$30–$40
VIEW	113	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	yes	106 ft	1,014 ft	$30–$40
VIEW	114	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	yes	106 ft	1,013 ft	$30–$40
VIEW	115	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp	yes	99 ft	980 ft	$30–$40
VIEW	116	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes	99 ft	882 ft	$30–$40
VIEW	117	standard electric	35 ft	50 amp	yes	125 ft	776 ft	$30–$40
Woods	036	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		49 ft	637 ft	$30–$40
Woods	037A	standard electric	34 ft	50 amp		31 ft	617 ft	$30–$40
Woods	037B	standard electric	37 ft	50 amp		31 ft	589 ft	$30–$40
Woods	038	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp		103 ft	563 ft	$30–$40
Woods	039	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		70 ft	452 ft	$30–$40
Woods	040	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp		65 ft	476 ft	$30–$40
Woods	041	standard electric	41 ft	50 amp		70 ft	384 ft	$30–$40
Woods	042	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		65 ft	429 ft	$30–$40
Woods	043	standard electric	37 ft	50 amp		59 ft	354 ft	$30–$40
Woods	044	standard electric	37 ft	50 amp		72 ft	317 ft	$30–$40
Woods	045	standard electric	37 ft	50 amp		59 ft	307 ft	$30–$40
Woods	046	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		87 ft	190 ft	$30–$40
Woods	047	standard electric	26 ft	50 amp		85 ft	227 ft	$30–$40
Woods	048	standard electric	31 ft	50 amp		76 ft	145 ft	$30–$40
Woods	049	standard electric	28 ft	50 amp		64 ft	207 ft	$30–$40
Woods	050	standard electric	25 ft	50 amp		54 ft	159 ft	$30–$40
Woods	051	standard electric	31 ft	50 amp		54 ft	189 ft	$30–$40
Woods	052	standard electric	36 ft	50 amp		88 ft	269 ft	$30–$40

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.

25 of 115 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate36.99556, -88.20972

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone270-362-4840

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Eureka2.2 mi

Old Kuttawa6.9 mi

Hurricane Creek14 mi

Cadiz23 mi

Linton27 mi

Bumpus Mills32 mi

Getting there

Physical Address: 1010 Canal Campground Road, Grand Rivers, KY 42045. From Interstate I-24, take Grand Rivers Exit 31. Drive south on Highway 453 for approximately 4 miles. Turn left onto J.H. O'Bryan Avenue for .1 miles. Turn right onto Canal Campground Road for .5 miles.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight46°Mostly Clear

Saturday60°Sunny

Saturday Night40°Clear

Sunday67°Sunny

NWS forecast for Grand Rivers, KY

Source: National Weather Service, PAH forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 52°F, day 74°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°20°

Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more

A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: EDDYVILLE 5S, KY (USC00152442), 8 miles away and 113 ft higher

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Canal is in Kentucky’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, James Comer (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 9 of the next 30 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 115 of the 115 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 115 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.94 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 60 rated federal campgrounds in Kentucky · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Grand Rivers, KY, 0.2 mi ESE. Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026