What are the largest employers in Henderson County, Kentucky?

Three corporate-parent-distinct aluminum sites lead the manufacturing payroll: Century Aluminum's Sebree smelter at Robards, Audubon Metals on Ohio Drive (subsidiary of Koch Enterprises in Evansville), and Hydro Aluminum on Atkinson Street (subsidiary of Norsk Hydro in Oslo, with an $85 million HyForge casthouse coming online in 2026). Deaconess Henderson Hospital and the public-sector roster — Henderson County Schools, Henderson Community College, the City of Henderson and its three municipal utilities — round out the top employers.

Is Henderson County part of the Evansville metropolitan area?

Yes. Henderson is the only Kentucky principal county of the Evansville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which also includes Vanderburgh, Posey, and Warrick counties in Indiana. The City of Henderson sits twelve miles south of downtown Evansville across the US-41 Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges. The Henderson-Evansville I-69 Ohio River Crossing bridge is under construction with a 2031 target completion.

How is Deaconess Henderson Hospital connected to Indiana?

Deaconess Henderson Hospital is the former Methodist Hospital at 1305 North Elm Street. It joined Deaconess Health System of Evansville, Indiana on July 1, 2020 per the Deaconess press release and Becker's Hospital Review. The hospital operates the Methodist Comprehensive Breast Center, an outpatient cluster, and the Henderson Clinic ambulatory. The Community Program Fund continues as the merger residual, with a $70,000 grant cycle in June 2025.

What business opportunities exist in Henderson County under $300,000 startup capital?

Two candidates on this report fit that range. The bilateral KY-IN nurse and CNA staffing agency feeds Deaconess Henderson and Evansville cross-river under the Nurse Licensure Compact. The bi-state day-tour operator bundles John James Audubon State Park, Ellis Park, downtown Henderson, and cross-river Evansville under KY-IN motor-carrier authority. Both run below $340,000 in founder-side capital.

Where is the Century Aluminum Sebree smelter?

The Sebree smelter is at 1230 Wheatcroft Road in Robards inside Henderson County, despite the Sebree name. The City of Sebree itself straddles the Webster-Henderson line, and the retired Sebree Station generating plant is in Webster — the geography is easy to confuse. The smelter runs about 220,000 metric tonnes per year of primary aluminum and is one of two operating primary smelters in the United States per company materials.

What is the I-69 Ohio River Crossing project?

The Henderson-Evansville I-69 Ohio River Crossing is a new bridge connecting Kentucky and Indiana along the Interstate 69 alignment. The Indiana Department of Transportation is the lead agency, partnering with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, with a target completion date of 2031. The project is in multi-package construction-letting. The state DOT pass-through to Henderson place-of-performance work — $216.8 million across 49 DOT awards over three years — reflects this and other I-69, Audubon Parkway, US-41, KY-9, and KY-136 work.

What anchors Henderson County's tourism economy?

John James Audubon State Park on US-41 holds what the Kentucky Department of Parks and Recreation calls the world's largest display of Audubon originals and artifacts, with three galleries chronicling Audubon's 1810-1819 residency in Henderson, a complete set of The Birds of America, and more than 200 artifacts. Ellis Park Race Course, just south of the Bi-State Bridges, runs thoroughbred racing and historical-racing-machine gaming under Churchill Downs Incorporated, which acquired the track on September 26, 2022 for $79 million cash.

Who runs the local government in Henderson?

Mayor Brad Staton leads the City of Henderson under the mayor-council form set out in KRS 83A. Judge-Executive Brad Schneider heads the Henderson County Fiscal Court. Dr. Bob Lawson has served as superintendent of Henderson County Schools since December 2020 per WSON Radio and Henderson Family Magazine. The City of Henderson also operates Henderson Municipal Power & Light, Henderson Municipal Gas, and Henderson Water Utility — three distinct utilities at a single shared address at 100 Fifth Street.

Henderson County, KY — Evansville-MSA business openings

What this place actually is.

Henderson sits in Western Kentucky on the south bank of the Ohio River, twelve miles south of downtown Evansville across the US-41 Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges. The county is the only Kentucky principal of the Evansville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which combines Vanderburgh, Posey, and Warrick counties in Indiana with Henderson on the Kentucky side. Henderson contributes about 14 percent of the MSA's roughly 315,000 residents. The City of Henderson, the county seat, carries about 27,900 of the county's 44,300 residents under a mayor-council form set out in KRS 83A; Mayor Brad Staton serves per published city materials. Corydon and Robards are the two smaller home-rule towns. County median household income runs about $58,500, near 92 percent of the Kentucky median, lifted by Evansville-MSA wage uplift and the manufacturing wage band.

The county sits on Interstate 69, which follows the US-41 alignment south through Henderson to Madisonville and Hopkinsville. I-69 northbound continues into Indiana over the Henderson-Evansville Ohio River Crossing bridge, currently under construction with INDOT as the lead agency and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) as partner, target completion 2031. The Audubon Parkway runs east from US-41 to Owensboro. The Ohio River forms the entire 30-mile northern and western boundary; the river bends south and then north, making the county a peninsula. Adjacent Kentucky counties are Daviess east, Webster south, Union southwest, and McLean southeast. Cross-river Indiana adjacencies run Vanderburgh, Posey, and Warrick — the last home to ALCOA's Warrick Operations rolling mill at Newburgh.

The federal business-mix capture for the county returns 981 establishments, 16,025 employees, $777.2 million in annual payroll, and 2,435 nonemployers. The 16,025-employee count produces an employment-to-population ratio of about 36 percent, reflecting active integration with the Evansville MSA. Per-employee payroll averages about $48,500 — high for the rural corpus and driven by primary-smelter operator wages, technical-trades wages at Audubon Metals, registered-nurse and clinical wages at Deaconess, and the three municipal-utility wage bands. The sole-prop ratio of 2.48 is employer-leaning, consistent with the industrial-anchor structure.

Top sectors by establishment count run Retail Trade first (150 establishments and 1,843 employees, anchored by US-41 corridor retail and a Walmart Supercenter), Health Care second (139 establishments, $115 million in payroll, anchored by Deaconess plus Redbanks and St. Anthony's Hospice), and Other Services third (104 establishments). Manufacturing carries only 68 establishments but generates 5,459 employees and $336 million in payroll — about 43 percent of all county wages on 34 percent of all county employment, with per-employee payroll near $61,500. Manufacturing is the single most defining feature of the county's economic structure.

Three corporate-parent-distinct aluminum sites anchor the manufacturing payroll. Century Aluminum's Sebree smelter at 1230 Wheatcroft Road in Robards runs primary aluminum production at about 220,000 metric tonnes per year — one of two operating primary-aluminum smelters in the United States, with roughly $10 million in 2024 maintenance investment per AlCircle. The smelter sits in Robards inside Henderson County despite the Sebree-name historical convention; the City of Sebree itself straddles the Webster-Henderson line. Audubon Metals at 3055 Ohio Drive in Henderson runs the only US heavy-media separator plus secondary-specification aluminum-alloy line under one roof, processing more than 500 million pounds of non-ferrous recyclable metals per year into die-cast feedstock; the company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Enterprises in Evansville and received the DENSO Quality Gold Award in June 2024. Hydro Aluminum at 2300 Atkinson Street runs extrusion and is mid-build on an $85 million HyForge casthouse with 31 new jobs at full operation, under Norsk Hydro of Oslo, target 2026.

The City of Henderson operates three distinct municipal utilities from a single shared address at 100 Fifth Street. Henderson Municipal Power & Light (HMP&L) runs municipal electric distribution under KRS 96.520; its Station Two coal generation has retired and is being prepared for redevelopment, and the utility is transitioning to wholesale-market power purchase with emerging local solar. Henderson Municipal Gas (HMG) runs natural-gas distribution under KRS 65 and PHMSA 49 CFR Part 192. Henderson Water Utility (HWU) runs municipal water, sewer, and storm-water under EPA Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Water Act, and the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions service-line inventory regime. The Henderson City County Airport at 1860 Powell Street (FAA identifier KEHR) and the Henderson County Riverport at 1755 Steamboat Drive round out the public-infrastructure layer; the riverport's new bulk dock opens in May 2026 per Waterways Journal.

Deaconess Henderson Hospital at 1305 North Elm Street is the Henderson-resident acute-care site of an Indiana corporate parent. The hospital was Methodist Hospital before merger and joined Deaconess Health System of Evansville on July 1, 2020 per the Deaconess press release and Becker's Hospital Review. The Community Program Fund continues as the Methodist-to-Deaconess merger residual, with a $70,000 June 2025 grant cycle to local organizations. The hospital operates the Methodist Comprehensive Breast Center, an outpatient cluster, and the Henderson Clinic ambulatory. We estimate roughly 410 beds, based on regional comparables; the system has not published a current Henderson figure. The Indiana-parent pattern repeats across Audubon Metals (Koch Enterprises, Evansville) and CenterPoint Energy (regional Indiana subsidiary serving portions of Henderson under cross-state-line franchise). Wider anchor parentage runs to Norway, Arkansas, Oregon, Georgia, Australia, South Carolina, New Jersey, Germany, Canada, and Minnesota.

Henderson Community College (HCC), at 2660 South Green Street, is the sole Henderson-resident higher-education institution. The KCTCS member campus enrolls roughly 1,450 students and runs programs in Agriculture, Business and Computer Technology, Construction and Industrial Trades (Construction Electrician, Industrial Automation, Robotics Technician, and Welding), Nursing ADN, Medical Assisting, Medical Laboratory Technician, and Interdisciplinary Childhood Education. The college operates as the workforce-pipeline anchor for the three aluminum sites, for Deaconess clinical staffing, and for the I-69 bridge subcontractor bench. Henderson County Schools (HCS) at 1805 Second Street is the single county-wide K-12 district: 8 elementary, 2 middle, and 1 high school, plus an alternative learning center and a preschool center. Dr. Bob Lawson has served as superintendent since December 2020 per WSON Radio and Henderson Family Magazine. The district employs about 1,042 staff and announced a preschool expansion in April 2026.

John James Audubon State Park at 3100 US Highway 41 N is a 700-acre Kentucky State Parks site holding what the agency calls the world's largest display of Audubon originals and artifacts. Three galleries chronicle Audubon's 1810-1819 Henderson residency, and the museum holds a complete set of The Birds of America and more than 200 artifacts; museum admission is free every Wednesday. The park runs a 9-hole golf course, 6 cottages, a 69-acre campground, a 28-acre fishing lake, and 6.5 miles of hiking trails. Ellis Park Race Course at 3300 US Highway 41 North, just south of the Bi-State Bridges, runs thoroughbred racing and historical-racing-machine gaming. Churchill Downs Incorporated, based in Louisville, acquired Ellis Park on September 26, 2022 for $79 million cash per the company's investor-relations release, with a $100 million Owensboro off-track historical-racing facility commitment per ESPN as part of the acquisition rationale. The park-track pairing, the downtown Henderson waterfront, and the cross-river Evansville visitor flow define the county's tourism overlay.

Federal contracts on record over the trailing three-year window concentrate in a few large channels. The Executive Office of the Commonwealth of Kentucky carries $216.8 million across 49 DOT awards as a state pass-through for Henderson place-of-performance work — I-69 conversion, Audubon Parkway, US-41, KY-9, KY-136, and the partial-PoP share of the Henderson-Evansville Ohio River Crossing. The work product sits in Henderson; the operational employment runs through KYTC District 2 personnel and private prime contractors, not through Henderson-resident firms. The Housing Authority of Henderson carries $23.68 million across 81 HUD awards on a high-cadence monthly contract pattern. The Henderson City County Airport carries $15.57 million across 7 FAA Airport Improvement Program awards. Henderson Community College carries $11.76 million across 16 Department of Education awards. Clarke Power Services carries $13.28 million across 692 DOD and DHS awards — the highest-award-count federal footprint in the county, with a Henderson-versus-Cincinnati corporate-residency question that remains open. A multifamily and senior-housing cluster aggregates roughly $7.2 million in HUD awards across Henderson County Health Care Corporation-Two, Woodsview, Green River Independent Living III, Windy Way, and Redbanks Regency.

Six candidates run the founder capital range from $75,000 to $800,000. They map to the three structural features the data points to. The first sits an aluminum-refractory and industrial-electrical outage-crew bundle operating downstream of Century, Audubon, and Hydro, on the regional Tier-2 and Tier-3 vendor bench rather than direct to any prime. The second sits a bilateral KY-IN nurse, CNA, and LPN staffing agency feeding Deaconess Henderson and Evansville cross-river under the Nurse Licensure Compact. The third sits a multi-trade operator across HCS, HCC, and the Housing Authority of Henderson under the three procurement codes that govern them. The fourth sits a tri-utility procurement-services and facilities-aggregator bundle across HMP&L, HMG, and HWU. The fifth sits a solar and battery operations-and-maintenance field-service operator across the Rock Bluff Energy Park and Geronimo Power developments. The sixth sits a bi-state day-tour operator bundling Audubon State Park, Ellis Park, downtown Henderson, and cross-river Evansville under KY-IN motor-carrier authority.

Century Aluminum Sebree Smelter (Robards): Primary aluminum smelter at roughly 220,000 metric tonnes per year of capacity per company communications · 1230 Wheatcroft Road, Robards. NAICS 331313. Subsidiary of Century Aluminum Company. One of two operating US primary-aluminum smelters per company materials. Roughly $10 million maintenance investment 2024 per AlCircle. The smelter sits in Robards inside Henderson County despite the Sebree-name historical convention. Energy procurement is in transition off the retired Big Rivers coal generation toward wholesale-market purchase plus emerging solar. Primary anchor for the aluminum-refractory and industrial-electrical outage-crew candidate.
Audubon Metals LLC: Secondary aluminum specification-alloy producer plus heavy-media separator · 3055 Ohio Drive, Henderson. NAICS 331314. Wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Enterprises (Evansville, Indiana) per audubonmetals.com. The only US heavy-media-separator plus secondary-specification aluminum-alloy producer under one roof per company materials. Multi-site seven-furnace operation across Henderson and Corsicana, Texas; processes more than 500 million pounds of non-ferrous recyclable metals per year, turning automotive shredder residue into die-cast feedstock. DENSO Quality Gold Award, June 2024.
Hydro Aluminum (Norsk Hydro Henderson): Aluminum extrusion plus new HyForge casthouse with 31 new jobs at full operation · 2300 Atkinson Street, Henderson. Subsidiary of Norsk Hydro ASA (Oslo, Norway) through Hydro Extruded Solutions Americas. The $85 million HyForge casthouse expansion was announced by Governor Beshear on May 30, 2024 with an operational target of 2026; it serves small-diameter high-quality automotive billet for forged components.
Deaconess Henderson Hospital: Acute-care community hospital; roughly 410 beds based on regional comparables · 1305 North Elm Street, Henderson. The former Methodist Hospital. Joined Deaconess Health System of Evansville on July 1, 2020 per the Deaconess press release and Becker's Hospital Review. Indiana corporate parent, Kentucky operating site. Operates the Methodist Comprehensive Breast Center plus an outpatient cluster plus the Henderson Clinic ambulatory. The Community Program Fund continues as the Methodist-to-Deaconess merger residual, with a $70,000 June 2025 grant cycle. Primary anchor for the bilateral KY-IN nurse and CNA staffing candidate.
Henderson Community College (HCC; KCTCS): Two-year KCTCS campus enrolling roughly 1,450 students · 2660 South Green Street, Henderson. Programs span Agriculture, Business and Computer Technology, Construction and Industrial Trades (Construction Electrician, Industrial Automation, Robotics Technician, Welding), Nursing ADN, Medical Assisting, Medical Laboratory Technician, and Interdisciplinary Childhood Education. Federal contracts on record show $11.76 million across 16 Department of Education awards (Title IV plus TRIO plus Perkins V). Spring 2026 registration opened October 13, 2025.
Henderson County Schools (HCS): Single county-wide K-12 district; roughly 1,042 total employees · 1805 Second Street, Henderson. Single-district structure with 8 elementary, 2 middle, and 1 high school plus an alternative learning center and a preschool center. Superintendent Dr. Bob Lawson since December 2020 per WSON Radio and Henderson Family Magazine. The district announced a preschool expansion in April 2026 per Spectrum News 1 Louisville.
City of Henderson: Home-rule city of about 27,900 residents · 222 First Street, Henderson. Mayor-council form under KRS 83A. Mayor Brad Staton per published city materials. Federal contracts on record show $931,000 across 6 DOT awards. Primary anchor for the tri-utility procurement candidate.
HMP&L + HMG + HWU (three municipal utilities at 100 Fifth Street): Three distinct municipal utilities co-located at a single address · 100 Fifth Street, Henderson. Henderson Municipal Power & Light runs electric distribution under KRS 96.520; Station Two coal generation has retired and is being prepared for redevelopment, with a transition to wholesale-market power purchase plus emerging local solar. Henderson Municipal Gas runs natural-gas distribution under KRS 65 and PHMSA 49 CFR Part 192. Henderson Water Utility runs water, sewer, and storm-water under EPA Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Water Act, and the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions service-line inventory regime.
Henderson County Fiscal Court: County government · 20 North Main Street, Henderson. Judge-Executive Brad Schneider per the Kentucky County Judge-Executive Association directory and Tristate Homepage. Oversees the road department, jail, and county clerk integration. Federal contracts on record show $3.34 million across 2 DOT awards.
Housing Authority of Henderson: Public housing authority operating at high HUD award cadence · Henderson. Federal contracts on record show $23.68 million across 81 HUD awards over the trailing three-year window — the largest non-state Henderson channel by award count and a top-three by dollars. The cadence reflects Capital Fund Program, Operating Subsidy, Section 8 administrative fee, and Housing Choice Voucher administrative streams.
Henderson City County Airport (FAA KEHR): Joint city-county-owned general-aviation airport · 1860 Powell Street, Henderson. FAA identifier KEHR. Federal contracts on record show $15.57 million across 7 DOT awards under the FAA Airport Improvement Program — the second-largest Henderson channel behind the state DOT pass-through.
Henderson County Riverport Authority: Public Ohio River bulk-cargo terminal · 1755 Steamboat Drive, Henderson. Special-purpose entity under KRS 65.510-65.650. Handles bulk cargo including coal, petroleum coke, gravel, sand, lime, fertilizers, and grains. A new bulk dock opens in May 2026 per Waterways Journal, with partial state riverport-grant funding from May 2024.
Ellis Park Race Course: Thoroughbred racetrack plus historical-racing-machine gaming · 3300 US Highway 41 North, Henderson. Churchill Downs Incorporated (Louisville) acquired Ellis Park on September 26, 2022 for $79 million cash per the Churchill Downs investor-relations release and ESPN, with a $100 million Owensboro off-track historical-racing facility commitment as part of the acquisition rationale. The track sits just south of the Bi-State Bridges and is covered by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act under HISA Authority oversight.
John James Audubon State Park: Kentucky State Parks site; roughly 700 acres plus an Audubon Museum · 3100 US Highway 41 N, Henderson. Operated by the Kentucky Department of Parks and Recreation. The museum holds what the agency calls the world's largest display of Audubon originals and artifacts, with three galleries chronicling Audubon's 1810-1819 Henderson residency, a complete set of The Birds of America, and more than 200 artifacts. The park runs a 9-hole golf course, 6 cottages, a 69-acre campground, a 28-acre fishing lake, 6.5 miles of hiking trails, and a nature center; museum admission is free every Wednesday.
Kenergy Corp.: Rural electric distribution cooperative · 6402 Old Corydon Road, Henderson. Big Rivers Electric's largest member-cooperative by load and customer count; serves the rural balance of Henderson outside the HMP&L city-limit service territory plus 11 other Western Kentucky counties. Distinct from Big Rivers Electric, which relocated its corporate headquarters from Henderson to Owensboro in 2023.

The candidates.

6 business openings the data points to. Each carries a candidate page with the operating math, named operators to call, and the acquisition or build path. Capital and Year-3 ranges are surfaced here; full assumptions live on each candidate page.

Candidate register 6 ranked openings math, operators, and next calls inside each memo

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Tradesperson going independent: Triple-procurement-code multi-trade contractor Tri-utility procurement and gas-mains bundle Solar and battery O&M field service
Existing operator pivoting: Refractory and industrial-electrical outage crew Bilateral KY-IN nurse staffing agency Triple-procurement-code multi-trade contractor Tri-utility procurement and gas-mains bundle Solar and battery O&M field service Bi-state Audubon and Ellis Park day-tour operator

Who to call this week.

Who to call. The contacts below are public-record offices and operations leads for the anchors that run this county's procurement channels. The aluminum primes are listed as procurement-pressure sources — the candidates do not sell direct to Century, Audubon Metals, or Hydro. Use these to test or kill each candidate's thesis quickly.

Tier 1

Century Aluminum Sebree Smelter procurement office (1230 Wheatcroft Road, Robards 42452) — Henderson-resident DOE-class primary smelter operating-FTE record; bundle does NOT sell direct

Identify regional Tier-2 / Tier-3 refractory + industrial-electrical + scrap-and-non-ferrous + industrial-cleaning vendor bench downstream of Century planned-outage + emergency-response demand windows as the addressable customer set for the aluminum-cluster bundle.
Audubon Metals LLC procurement office (3055 Ohio Drive, Henderson 42420; Koch Enterprises Evansville IN corporate parent)

Identify regional secondary-aluminum + heavy-media-separator feedstock + automotive-die-cast aluminum-billet supplier-bench scope downstream of Audubon planned-outage + DENSO-quality-certified Tier-1 sustainment demand windows; founder outreach for the aluminum-cluster bundle.
Hydro Aluminum (Norsk Hydro Henderson; 2300 Atkinson Street; HyForge casthouse operational 2026)

Identify regional extrusion + casthouse Tier-1 supplier-bench scope downstream of HyForge expansion + automotive small-diameter billet sustainment demand; founder outreach for the aluminum-cluster bundle.
Deaconess Henderson Hospital nurse-staffing + clinical-operations (1305 N Elm Street; Deaconess Health System Evansville IN parent)

Identify NLC-routing nurse + CNA + LPN contingent-labor demand pattern; identify bilateral KY-IN cross-river clinical-staffing pipeline volume; founder outreach for the KY-IN nurse-staffing bundle.
Henderson Community College (2660 South Green Street, Henderson 42420)

Procurement officer for FF&E + interior finishes + facilities-services + food-services + technology-services around HCC campus operations + Construction & Industrial Trades + Nursing program partnerships.
Henderson County Schools (1805 Second Street, Henderson 42420)

KDE School Facilities Branch contact + GC selection + A/E-of-record + FF&E coordinator + finishes punch-list for April 2026 preschool-expansion announcement + steady-state district floor.
Henderson County Fiscal Court (20 North Main Street, Henderson 42420)

Procurement officer for road department + jail + courthouse facilities-services + single-audit + STBG bridge-work pass-through.
City of Henderson (222 First Street, Henderson 42420; Mayor Brad Staton)

Procurement officer for municipal facilities + small-DOT pass-through + cross-functional procurement coordination across HMP&L + HMG + HWU.
HMP&L procurement (100 Fifth Street, Henderson 42420; KRS 96.520 municipal electric)

Procurement officer for distribution-substation + transformer + line-construction + Station Two redevelopment + emerging local-solar PPA + facilities-aggregation.
HMG procurement (100 Fifth Street, Henderson 42420; KRS 65 + PHMSA 49 CFR Part 192)

Procurement officer for distribution-mains construction + service-line setting + PHMSA Operator Qualification covered-task documentation + KY-811 locate-and-mark.
HWU procurement (100 Fifth Street, Henderson 42420; KRS 65 + EPA SDWA + CWA + LCRR)

Procurement officer for water-and-sewer line construction + LCRR service-line inventory + WWTP capex pipeline + facilities-aggregation.
Housing Authority of Henderson

Procurement officer for HUD Capital Fund Program, Operating Subsidy, Section 8 administrative fee, HCV administration, NSPIRE inspection, Section 3 compliance, EPA Renovation Repair Painting compliance, facilities services, and tenant services across the $23.68 million, 81-award portfolio.
Multifamily / senior-housing cluster (Henderson County Health Care Corporation-Two + Woodsview + Windy Way + Green River Independent Living III + Redbanks Regency)

Property-management + facilities-services + tenant-services across the Henderson-resident HUD multifamily portfolio.
Henderson City County Airport (1860 Powell Street; FAA KEHR; AIP capex)

Airport board procurement officer for AIP-funded runway + taxiway + apron + ILS + terminal + FBO operations + corporate-jet ground-handling.
Henderson County Riverport Authority (1755 Steamboat Drive; new bulk-dock May 2026)

Riverport board procurement officer for bulk-dock + terminal + rail-connection + IRPT-affiliated operating-contractor pass-through.
Ellis Park Race Course (3300 US Highway 41 N, Henderson 42420; Churchill Downs Inc. Louisville KY parent)

CDI Ellis Park ground-operations + dining + visitor-services scope outside CDI direct-operator posture for day-tour anchor-stop coordination; potential concessioner referral channel.
John James Audubon State Park (3100 US Highway 41 N, Henderson; KDPR-operated)

KDPR park-superintendent procurement contact for outfitter + experience-vendor + retail + dining + cottage / campground / Audubon-Museum-adjacent visitor-services outside concessioner-reserved scope.
Rock Bluff Energy Park - Cordelio Power (Henderson 42420; Toronto Canada parent)

Solar + BESS construction-completion + O&M scope-of-work + vegetation + module-wash + inverter + battery-system field-service routing; founder outreach for the renewables-O&M bundle.
Geronimo Power (Bloomington, Minnesota)

Verify the Henderson-resident utility-scale solar and battery project, scope of work, in-service date, and off-taker structure.
Kenergy Corp. (6402 Old Corydon Road, Henderson 42419; Big Rivers member-cooperative)

Rural-distribution co-op procurement officer for line-construction + transformer + substation + facilities-services across 11-county Western-KY service territory.
Henderson Chamber of Commerce + Henderson Gleaner + The Hendersonian + WSON Radio + Tristate Homepage

Chamber-Gold-member roster referral surface (~70 distinct members) + local-news placement and verification across all six bundles.

Tier 2

Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC)

Multifamily + senior-housing financing referrals + HUD multifamily property-management sub paths for the multifamily and municipal bundles.
SBA Kentucky District Office (Louisville)

7(a), 504, SBIR, STTR, Microloan, HUBZone, and 8(a) certification referrals across all six candidates.
Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) Buying Network

Multi-municipal cooperative purchasing referrals across City of Henderson + Corydon + Robards plus regional small-cities.
Kentucky School Boards Association (KSBA) cooperative bid

K-12 cooperative purchasing referrals around HCS preschool-expansion sub-tier + FF&E + finishes + technology.
Advantage Kentucky Alliance (AKA-MEP; University of Kentucky)

Regional NIST MEP + CMMC + ISO + lean-manufacturing programming for aluminum-cluster Tier-2 / Tier-3 vendor bench referral and competitive-set sizing.
Eastern Kentucky APEX Accelerator (Morehead State), Western Kentucky APEX Accelerator (Murray State), and Owensboro APEX (Big Rivers and KCTCS regional)

Federal-procurement counseling and bid-match referrals for founders on the regional supplier bench across Henderson, Webster, Daviess, Hopkins, and Union counties.
AICPA + Kentucky Society of CPAs

Single-audit Uniform-Guidance 2 CFR 200 federal-grant-recipient referral channel for the single-audit bundle across Housing Authority of Henderson + Henderson Riverport + HCS + HCC + Matthew 25 + multifamily cluster.
IRS Enrolled Agent program

Multi-state payroll + KY-IN cross-state-line compliance referrals for cross-state-line operations across the nurse-staffing, municipal, and day-tour bundles.
Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) administration via NCSBN + KBN (Kentucky Board of Nursing) + ISBN (Indiana State Board of Nursing under IPLA)

Multistate-license verification + declared-home-state mechanics + practice-laws-where-patient-located compliance for bilateral KY-IN nurse staffing.
FMCSA National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners (NRCME) + KY DMV + Indiana BMV cross-state-line motor-carrier authority

DOT-physical certification + bilateral KY-IN motor-carrier authority referral channel for cross-state-line operations in the renewables-O&M and day-tour bundles.
KY-ELAP / NELAP environmental + textile lab accreditation channels

Lab-accreditation referral channel for any environmental-testing or industrial-hygiene scope downstream of HMP&L / HMG / HWU + aluminum-cluster compliance frameworks.
Kentucky Office of Broadband Development (KOBD; BEAD subgrantee process)

Charter + Windstream + AT&T + cross-river Indiana fiber Henderson-resident service-delivery posture verification at the telehealth-spoke, tenant-broadband, and SCADA-and-comms layers.
Green River Area Development District (Owensboro-Daviess-resident HQ; Henderson is constituent county)

Regional planning + ARC LDD + EDA RLF + KIT subcontract path referrals across Henderson + Daviess + Hancock + McLean + Ohio + Webster + Union 7-county region.
Henderson Chamber of Commerce (~70 chamber-Gold member roster)

Chamber-Gold-member referral channel across the Henderson-resident industrial + healthcare + financial-services + tourism + utility-trio + housing + nonprofit anchor set.
Cyber-AB Marketplace + RPO sponsoring-organizations (where relevant)

RP / RPO registration plus apparel-vs-aluminum CMMC scope distinction; Henderson aluminum-cluster CUI scope different from Carter Olive Hill apparel-cluster CUI scope.
Kentucky Innovation Network (KIT) + KCTCS Workforce Solutions in-demand-occupation lead

Cross-county innovation hub workforce + subcontract paths + industrial-sewing / industrial-electrical / welding / robotics-technician workforce-funding referrals.

Tier 3

Deaconess Henderson Hospital bed count, FTE, named CEO and COO, and recent capex commitments

Verify against Deaconess Health System published materials and Kentucky CHFS facility-license registry.
HCC 2025-26 strategic plan + dual-credit enrollment with HCS + Hydro/Century apprenticeship partnerships + Spring 2026 actual registration figures

Verify against henderson.kctcs.edu + KCTCS system board records.
HCS exact total enrollment 2025-26 + named Board of Education roster + preschool-expansion scope, FF&E, capex band against KDE District Facilities Plan + KSFCC

Verify against KSBA portal + HCS board minutes + KDE School Facilities Branch records.
City of Henderson Mayor Brad Staton 2026 incumbency + Council membership + FY26-FY30 municipal capital plan

Verify against City Council minutes + Henderson County Clerk election records + hendersoncountyky.gov 2026 primary candidates page post-primary.
Henderson County Fiscal Court Judge-Executive Brad Schneider 2026 incumbency + magistrate-district composition + FY26 county budget + capex earmarks

Verify against Fiscal Court minutes + KCJEA directory + County Clerk records.
HMP&L current generation portfolio + Station Two redevelopment plan + wholesale-supplier agreements + employment FTE

Verify against HMP&L Utility Commission filings + KY PSC docket cross-references.
HMG rate-base + customer-count + employment FTE + PHMSA Operator Qualification covered-task posture

Verify against HMG published materials + KY PSC + PHMSA 49 CFR Part 192 inspection records.
HWU customer-count + WWTP capex pipeline + LCRR service-line inventory completion status + employment FTE

Verify against HWU published materials + EPA Clean Watersheds Needs Survey + KY Cabinet for Energy and Environment + LCRR inventory submission.
Henderson City County Airport based-aircraft count + FBO + corporate-jet traffic for Audubon Metals + Hydro + Century corporate visitors

Verify against FAA Form 5010 records + KEHR airport board minutes.
Housing Authority of Henderson ACOP public-housing bed count + HCV voucher allocation + Section 9 / Section 8 administrative distinction + named executive director + capital fund 5-year plan

Verify against HUD PIH-IMS records + HUD APR.
Henderson County Riverport annual tonnage + named operating-contractor + rail-connection status + bulk-dock May 2026 opening confirmation

Verify against Henderson County Riverport published materials + USACE Louisville District records + IRPT records.
Century Aluminum Sebree FTE + USW Local representation + recent capex + energy-procurement contract structure (post-Big Rivers PPA window 2023-2024)

Verify against Century company communications + USW records + AlCircle + Hellenic Shipping News.
Audubon Metals Henderson FTE + USW or other labor representation + primary OEM customers (Stellantis / Ford / GM / Tier-1 die-casters) + capex plans

Verify against Audubon Metals communications + Koch Enterprises records + DENSO supplier-quality records.
Hydro Aluminum current FTE pre-HyForge + corporate-ownership chain (Norsk Hydro ASA → Hydro Extruded Solutions → Hydro Aluminum NA → Henderson site) + HyForge casthouse customer-pipeline

Verify against Norsk Hydro IR + Hydro Aluminum NA records.
Tyson Robards FTE + shift structure + USDA FSIS inspection-line designation

Verify against Tyson Foods 10-K + USDA FSIS records.
Columbia Sportswear Robards FTE + peak-season scale + automation level

Verify against Columbia Sportswear 10-K + chamber capture.
Pratt Industries Henderson exact address + current FTE + paper-mill-vs-corrugated-converter operation type + recent capex + 60-acre KPDI 2025 expansion scope

Verify against Pratt Industries published materials + WSON Radio + Beshear press release.
Sonoco + Shamrock + Scott + Service Tool + Prestige Tool + Nylene exact product lines + FTE + sub-NAICS classifications

Verify against chamber capture + USAspending + SAM.gov records.
Clarke Power Services Henderson-HQ-vs-Cincinnati-OH-parent verification + NAICS-breadth verification (60+ codes; single-firm vs registration-aggregation)

HIGHEST PRIORITY: verify against SAM.gov + state of incorporation records + USAspending award-level cross-reference.
Rock Bluff Energy Park - Cordelio Power solar + BESS MW capacity + in-service-date + off-taker + Henderson-resident operating-site address

Verify against KY PSC + Cabinet for Energy and Environment + Cordelio Power published materials.
Geronimo Power Henderson project status + capacity + in-service-date + operating-site address (has_review_flag:true on chamber capture)

Verify against KY PSC + Cabinet for Energy and Environment + National Grid Renewables records.
Ellis Park FTE seasonal-vs-permanent + historical-racing-machine count + dining/event capacity + concessioner-reserved scope vs CDI direct-operator posture

Verify against Churchill Downs Inc. 10-K + KY Horse Racing Commission + HISA Authority records.
John James Audubon State Park annual visitation + Friends-of-Audubon programming partnerships + recent capex + KDPR concessioner contract-cycle existing-source posture

Verify against parks.ky.gov + KDPR records + Friends-of-Audubon published materials.
Kenergy Corp. customer-count + FTE + service-territory exact county-list

Verify against kenergycorp.com + Big Rivers Electric member-cooperatives records.
Field & Main Bank + Farmers Bank & Trust HQ-vs-branch + asset size + Western-KY footprint

Verify against FDIC + KY Department of Financial Institutions records.
Matthew 25 AIDS Services Inc. service catchment + named ED + $7.02M / 3-award HHS scope breakdown

Verify against Matthew 25 published materials + HRSA Ryan White records + HHS OIG.
Redbanks bed-count + FTE + ownership-structure (501c3 nonprofit vs for-profit) + Redbanks Regency Apartments HUD 202/811 capital-fund posture

Verify against KY CHFS OIG facility-license + HUD multifamily records.
St. Anthony's Hospice ADC + referral mix + ownership-structure + KRS Chapter 216B CON-status

Verify against St. Anthony's published materials + KY CHFS CON records.
I-69 Henderson-Evansville Ohio River Crossing bridge KYTC-vs-INDOT Henderson-PoP share + construction-letting schedule by package + target completion date

Verify against joint INDOT + KYTC project office records + Lane Report + FHWA records.
KY-IN personal-income-tax reciprocity exact mechanics for cross-state-line workers and businesses

Cross-confirm with KY DOR + Indiana DOR 2025-26 published guidance.
Henderson Independent School District NON-EXISTENCE confirmation against KSBA AgencyID directory cross-check

Verify against KSBA directory + KDE district list.
CenterPoint Energy KY-side franchise + service-territory boundary verification across Henderson County

Verify against KY PSC + CenterPoint Indiana published materials.
Sebree city Webster/Henderson line straddle exact municipal-boundary verification + Sebree Station coal-retirement June 1 2022 + $45M gas-retrofit + Coleman + Reid retirement schedules

Verify against Sebree city + Big Rivers + WKYUFM + Power Magazine + KY PSC records.
Pennsylvania Apparel LLC Carter-vs-Henderson naming-collision verification (zero Henderson presence expected)

Verify against SAM.gov + chamber capture; explicitly confirm no Henderson operating-site.
River View Coal Henderson-vs-Union-County residency reconfirmation (chamber-affiliation Henderson; mine Union)

Verify against MSHA records + chamber capture.
Cyber-AB Marketplace RPO + CCP count resident in Western Kentucky + Evansville MSA — competitive-set saturation check for any aluminum-cluster CMMC scope

Verify against Cyber-AB Marketplace records.
Nurse Licensure Compact KY-IN bilateral mechanics + declared-home-state employer-of-record posture + KBN + ISBN cross-state-line discipline coordination

Verify against NCSBN + KBN + ISBN published materials.
KY DMS Medicaid managed-care + KRS 304.17A-138 telehealth-parity + originating-site facility-fee regulation for nurse-staffing or renewables-O&M telehealth or NEMT scope (if surfaces)

Verify against KY DMS + KY DOI records.
KY Cabinet for Public Protection + KY DOI + KY DMS auto-policy + commercial-fleet + Medicaid managed-care NEMT subcontracting compliance posture for any renewables-O&M or day-tour NEMT or motor-carrier scope

Verify against KY DOI + KY DMS records.
KOBD BEAD subgrantee selection 2025-26 + Charter + Windstream + AT&T + cross-river fiber Henderson-resident service-delivery + tenant-broadband at HCC + HCS + Housing Authority sites + telehealth-spoke broadband-sufficiency

Verify against FCC National Broadband Map + on-site survey.
KY PSC + Cabinet for Energy and Environment Cordelio + Geronimo + adjacent NextEra Sebree Solar project status + Henderson HMP&L emerging-local-solar PPA structure + MISO market-power-purchase contract structure

Verify against KY PSC + MISO + NextEra Energy Resources + Cordelio Power + National Grid Renewables records.
USACE Louisville District + USCG 8th District Ohio River navigation + flood-control + J. T. Myers Lock-and-Dam + Newburgh Lock-and-Dam operations + Henderson County Riverport bulk-dock May 2026 opening readiness

Verify against USACE Louisville District + USCG 8th District records.
FAA Airport Improvement Program (AIP) Henderson City County Airport project-by-project cadence + ILS upgrade + runway + apron + corporate-jet traffic for aluminum + Hydro + Century corporate visitors

Verify against FAA AIP + Form 5010 records.
KY CHFS Division of Child Care licensing (Type-I and Type-II family childcare home + small-licensed center) + KY CCAP subsidy posture for any folded childcare scope at the contractor or municipal bundles

Verify against KY CHFS records.
KY Department of Insurance + KY DMS Medicaid managed-care NEMT subcontracting + Modivcare + Verida KY-MCO 2026 assignment

Verify against KY DOI + KY DMS records.
KY Office of the Attorney General Open Records + Open Meetings cross-references for Henderson Fiscal Court + city + HMP&L + HMG + HWU + Riverport board + Airport board minutes

Verify against OAG published guidance + posted board minutes.
KY Cabinet for Economic Development + ARC LDD + EDA RLF + KY Innovation Network Henderson-resident program participation + Green River ADD 7-county economic-development surface

Verify against KCED + ARC + EDA + Green River ADD records.
KY Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet + KY State Parks marketing-and-events cycle for John James Audubon SP 2026 season + Ellis Park 2026 racing meet + downtown Henderson visitor-flow + cross-river Evansville visitor coordination

Verify against KY Tourism Cabinet + KY State Parks + downtown Henderson Audubon-Mill-Park records.
KY Department for Aging and Independent Living + Green River ADD Title III aging-subgrantee + senior-housing pass-through to multifamily / Redbanks + HUD 202/811

Verify against KY DAIL + Green River ADD AAA reports + HUD multifamily records.
ARC county-economic-status FY2026 (Distressed / At-Risk / Transitional / Competitive / Attainment) for Henderson + ARC POWER / POWER+ Henderson allocations (Henderson NOT applicable to coal-transition POWER scope; carry-forward only)

Verify against arc.gov county-status map + POWER award database.
IRS Enrolled Agent + AICPA + KY CPA society + Uniform Guidance 2 CFR 200 single-audit threshold ($1M+) qualifying recipient set across Henderson-resident federal-grant-recipient set (Housing Authority of Henderson + HCC + HCS + Matthew 25 + Riverport + Fiscal Court + multifamily cluster)

Verify against IRS-EA + AICPA + Uniform Guidance records.
KY-ELAP + NELAP environmental + industrial-hygiene lab accreditation scope + AATCC + ASTM method coverage for any aluminum-cluster compliance scope

Verify against KY-ELAP + NELAP records.
DOD CMMC AB + DLA + Department of Commerce DPAS + Berry-Amendment cross-reference for Service Tool & Plastics $417K / 2 DOD + Clarke Power Services $13.28M / 692 DOD-and-DHS sustainment-procurement posture

Verify against DOD CMMC AB + DLA + USAspending records.
HISA Authority oversight scope at Ellis Park + KY Horse Racing Commission HRM-machine count + racing-meet structure

Verify against HISA + KHRC records.
Henderson Community College apprenticeship partnerships with Century / Audubon Metals / Hydro Aluminum / HMP&L / HMG / HWU / Deaconess Henderson + KCTCS Workforce Solutions in-demand-occupation lead

Verify against HCC + KCTCS records.
NSPIRE physical-inspection + Section 3 + EPA RRP compliance posture across Housing Authority of Henderson + multifamily cluster

Verify against HUD REAC + EPA records.
KY-IN bilateral motor-carrier authority + IRP / IFTA cross-state-line credentials + USDOT MC numbers for renewables-O&M and day-tour cross-river operations

Verify against FMCSA + KY DMV + Indiana BMV records.
Big Rivers Electric Corporation Owensboro-resident G&T wholesale post-2023 HQ relocation + Kenergy Corp. Henderson-resident distribution co-op operational separation + member-cooperative tier disambiguation

Verify against bigrivers.com + kenergycorp.com + KY PSC records.
Henderson Chamber of Commerce ~70-member Gold roster current 2026 + has_review_flag entries (Geronimo Power + others) resolution + chamber-Gold-vs-Silver-vs-Bronze tier distinctions

Verify against Henderson Chamber published materials.

Operators in this market.

Top operators across the three Henderson aluminum sites — Century Aluminum at Robards, Audubon Metals on Ohio Drive, and Hydro Aluminum on Atkinson Street; the Deaconess Henderson acute-care site under its Evansville corporate parent; the three municipal utilities at 100 Fifth Street; Henderson Community College and the county-wide school district; the Fiscal Court and City of Henderson; the airport and riverport; the Housing Authority and the multifamily and senior-housing HUD cluster; Audubon State Park and Ellis Park under Churchill Downs Incorporated; the wider industrial roster (Tyson Robards, Columbia Sportswear Robards, Pratt Industries, Sonoco, Shamrock Technologies, Nylene, Brenntag Mid-South, Service Tool, Scott, Prestige Tool); and the utility-scale solar developers at Rock Bluff Energy Park (Cordelio Power) and Geronimo Power.

Market posture labels

Active in market Out-of-county Institution

Operator

Role

Market posture

Century Aluminum Sebree Smelter

Primary aluminum smelter — NAICS 331313; roughly 220,000 metric tonnes per year

Active in market

1230 Wheatcroft Road, Robards. Subsidiary of Century Aluminum Company. One of two operating US primary smelters per company materials. Historically coal-powered; transitioning to wholesale-market purchase and emerging local solar. Roughly $10 million 2024 maintenance investment per AlCircle.
Audubon Metals LLC

Secondary aluminum specification-alloy producer with heavy-media separator — NAICS 331314

Active in market

3055 Ohio Drive, Henderson. Wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Enterprises (Evansville, Indiana). Seven-furnace operation across Henderson and Corsicana, Texas. DENSO Quality Gold Award, June 2024.
Hydro Aluminum (Norsk Hydro Henderson)

Aluminum extrusion plus new HyForge casthouse — Norsk Hydro ASA, Oslo

Active in market

2300 Atkinson Street. Subsidiary of Norsk Hydro ASA through Hydro Extruded Solutions Americas. $85 million HyForge casthouse with 31 new jobs operational 2026 per Governor Beshear's May 30, 2024 announcement. Serves small-diameter high-quality billet for forged automotive components.
Deaconess Henderson Hospital

Acute-care community hospital — Deaconess Health System, Evansville

Active in market

1305 North Elm Street, Henderson. The former Methodist Hospital. Joined Deaconess Health System on July 1, 2020. Operates the Methodist Comprehensive Breast Center, an outpatient cluster, and the Henderson Clinic ambulatory. The Community Program Fund continues as the merger residual.
Henderson Community College (HCC; KCTCS)

Two-year KCTCS member college

Active in market

2660 South Green Street, Henderson. Roughly 1,450 students. Federal contracts on record show $11.76 million across 16 Department of Education awards. Spring 2026 registration opened October 13, 2025.
Henderson County Schools (HCS)

Single county-wide K-12 public district

Active in market

1805 Second Street, Henderson. Superintendent Dr. Bob Lawson since December 2020. Roughly 1,042 total employees. 8 elementary, 2 middle, 1 high school, plus an alternative learning center and a preschool center. Preschool expansion announced April 2026 per Spectrum News 1 Louisville.
City of Henderson

Home-rule city under KRS 83A

Active in market

222 First Street. Mayor Brad Staton. Federal contracts on record show $931,000 across 6 DOT awards.
Henderson Municipal Power & Light (HMP&L)

Municipal electric utility under KRS 96.520

Active in market

100 Fifth Street, Henderson. Station Two coal generation has retired; transitioning to wholesale-market purchase plus emerging local solar.
Henderson Municipal Gas (HMG)

Municipal natural-gas distribution under KRS 65 and PHMSA 49 CFR Part 192

Active in market

100 Fifth Street, co-located with HMP&L and HWU.
Henderson Water Utility (HWU)

Municipal water, sewer, and storm-water under KRS 65 and EPA SDWA, CWA, and LCRR

Active in market

100 Fifth Street, co-located with HMP&L and HMG.
Henderson County Fiscal Court

County government

Active in market

20 North Main Street, Henderson. Judge-Executive Brad Schneider. Federal contracts on record show $3.34 million across 2 DOT awards.
Housing Authority of Henderson

Public housing authority with high HUD award cadence

Active in market

Henderson. Federal contracts on record show $23.68 million across 81 HUD awards over the trailing three-year window — the largest non-state Henderson channel by award count.
Henderson City County Airport

Joint city-county-owned general-aviation airport (FAA KEHR)

Active in market

1860 Powell Street. Federal contracts on record show $15.57 million across 7 DOT awards under the FAA Airport Improvement Program.
Henderson County Riverport Authority

Public Ohio River bulk-cargo terminal under KRS 65.510-65.650

Active in market

1755 Steamboat Drive. New bulk dock opens May 2026 per Waterways Journal; partial state riverport-grant funding from May 2024.
Tyson Foods Robards Plant

Poultry processing under NAICS 311615; parent Tyson Foods, Arkansas

Active in market

6890 US Highway 41 N, Robards. Federal contracts on record show $2.65 million across 2 USDA awards.
Columbia Sportswear Robards Distribution Center

Apparel distribution; parent Columbia Sportswear, Oregon

Active in market

14375 Highway 41 South, Robards. Western-region distribution center for North American footwear, apparel, and accessories.
Pratt Industries (Henderson)

Corrugated packaging and 100-percent-recycled paper; parents Pratt USA and Visy Industries, Australia

Active in market

Henderson, on the KY-425 Bypass site. An adjacent 60-acre expansion was approved in September 2025 per WSON Radio and a Beshear press release.
Sonoco Products (Henderson)

Paper and plastics packaging; parent Sonoco Products, South Carolina

Active in market

Henderson. North American paperboard, tube-and-core, and flexible packaging.
Shamrock Technologies, Inc.

Specialty waxes and micronized PTFE powders; parent Newark, New Jersey

Active in market

Henderson. Micronized PTFE and polyethylene waxes for industrial coatings, lubricants, and printing inks.
Nylene USA

Specialty nylon polyamide and compound manufacturing

Active in market

1421 KY-136, Henderson. 53 employees per the Henderson Economic Development Corporation. The site has more than 40 years of history (1957 startup). Serves automotive, packaging, wire-and-cable, injection-molding, roto-molding, and carpet industries.
Brenntag Mid-South, Inc.

Industrial-chemicals distribution; parent Brenntag SE, Essen, Germany

Active in market

Henderson. Western Kentucky and Tri-State distribution.
Service Tool & Plastics, Inc.

Tool-and-die and plastic injection-molding

Active in market

Henderson. Federal contracts on record show $417,000 across 2 DOD awards.
Prestige Tool and Die, LLC

Tool-and-die manufacturing

Active in market

Henderson. Federal contracts on record show $149,000 on 1 USDA award.
Scott Industries, LLC

Privately held manufacturer

Active in market

Henderson.
Clarke Power Services, Inc.

DOD parts and services across multiple NAICS codes

Out-of-county

Federal contracts on record show $13.28 million across 692 DOD and DHS awards over the trailing three-year window — the highest-award-count federal footprint in the county at roughly 230 awards a year. A Henderson-versus-Cincinnati corporate-residency question remains open.
Kenergy Corp.

Rural electric distribution cooperative; Big Rivers Electric member

Active in market

6402 Old Corydon Road, Henderson. Big Rivers's largest member-cooperative by load and customer count. Distinct from Big Rivers Electric itself, which relocated its corporate headquarters to Owensboro in 2023.
Rock Bluff Energy Park — Cordelio Power

Utility-scale solar and storage developer; parent Cordelio Power, Toronto

Active in market

Henderson.
Geronimo Power

Utility-scale solar and storage developer; parent in Bloomington, Minnesota

Out-of-county

Affiliated with National Grid Renewables. Henderson-resident project status remains open and is queued for verification.
Ellis Park Race Course

Thoroughbred racetrack plus historical-racing-machine gaming; parent Churchill Downs Incorporated, Louisville

Active in market

3300 US Highway 41 North, Henderson. Churchill Downs Incorporated completed the $79 million cash acquisition on September 26, 2022. The track is covered under the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act.
John James Audubon State Park

Kentucky State Parks site plus Audubon Museum; roughly 700 acres

Active in market

3100 US Highway 41 N, Henderson. Holds what the agency calls the world's largest display of Audubon originals and artifacts. Free museum admission every Wednesday.
Redbanks and Redbanks Regency Apartments

Continuing-care retirement community plus HUD 202/811 senior housing

Active in market

851 Kimsey Lane, Henderson. Redbanks Regency Apartments holds $631,000 across 4 HUD awards. The largest Henderson-resident long-term-care anchor.
St. Anthony's Hospice

Henderson-resident hospice agency

Active in market

Henderson.
Matthew 25 AIDS Services Inc.

HIV/AIDS service organization with substantial HHS channel

Active in market

Henderson. Federal contracts on record show $7.02 million across 3 HHS awards. Serves Western Kentucky and cross-river Indiana populations.
Field & Main Bank, Farmers Bank & Trust, and Independence Bank

Community-bank cluster — Field & Main and Farmers Bank & Trust headquartered in Henderson; Independence Bank headquartered in Owensboro with strong Henderson presence

Institution

All three are chamber-Gold members.
CenterPoint Energy

Investor-owned utility; Houston parent; Indiana regional subsidiary serves portions of Henderson under cross-state-line franchise

Out-of-county

Indiana corporate residency; partial Henderson operating service.
Executive Office of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (state DOT pass-through)

State-channel federal DOT pass-through for Henderson place-of-performance work

Out-of-county

Federal contracts on record show $216.8 million across 49 DOT awards over the trailing three-year window — the largest single Henderson channel by dollars. The work product sits in Henderson; the operational employment runs through KYTC District 2 personnel, private primes, and subcontractors.
C. J. Mahan Construction Company, LLC

Heavy-civil construction; Grove City, Ohio headquarters; Henderson place-of-performance only

Out-of-county

A single $5.15 million DOD award likely tied to USACE Ohio River navigation or flood-control work at J. T. Myers Lock-and-Dam or Newburgh Lock-and-Dam. Place-of-performance coding only, not an operating site.
Henderson Chamber of Commerce, Henderson Gleaner, The Hendersonian, WSON Radio, and Tristate Homepage

Chamber and local-news referral surface

Active in market

About 70 chamber-Gold members. The Gleaner, The Hendersonian, WSON Radio, Tristate Homepage, 14News Evansville, and the Evansville Courier & Press together publish roughly 15 to 20 enterprise stories per month touching Henderson.

Acquisition register.

Businesses for sale or near succession in Henderson County. The Henderson slate runs at founder capital from $75,000 to $800,000. Three larger transactions are preserved below as later-pass references rather than working-operator entries: a hospice license acquisition gated by Kentucky's Certificate of Need regime under KRS Chapter 216B; an aluminum-cluster Tier-1 supplier near Audubon Metals or Hydro that an existing operator could acquire to anchor a regional bench; and an Ellis Park concessioner or food-and-beverage operator if any concessioner scope surfaces outside Churchill Downs Incorporated's direct-operator posture. None of the three is sized for a first-time founder.

Strongest

Strongest succession signal

No entries surfaced in this analysis.

Mixed

Some signals, not all

No entries surfaced in this analysis.

Long tenure

Long tenure, no exit signal yet

A Henderson-resident hospice agency operating under KRS Chapter 216B with referral concentration across Deaconess Henderson, Redbanks, and the Western Kentucky senior-housing cluster. The Certificate of Need regime restricts greenfield entry, which makes the acquisition path the realistic way in. Acquirer-track only; not a working-operator opening. Name withheld pending consent

Hospice license acquisition under Kentucky's Certificate of Need regime
- A license held by a Henderson-resident operating site under KRS Chapter 216B
- Referral mix concentrated across Deaconess Henderson discharges, Redbanks, and the Western Kentucky senior-housing cluster
- Average daily census, referral mix, and ownership structure all open for verification
Reserved for a later pass. At today's scope, the nurse and CNA staffing candidate plus the multi-trade housing-services candidate are the working-operator lanes in this cohort.
A Western Kentucky or Tri-State regional aluminum-industry Tier-1 supplier — a refractory-services prime, an industrial-electrical contractor with substation scope, a non-ferrous recycler with heavy-media-separator feedstock access, an automotive die-cast aluminum-billet customer, or an industrial-cleaning specialist — positioned to serve the three Henderson aluminum sites. Acquirer-track only. Name withheld pending consent

Tier-1 supplier acquisition near Audubon Metals or Hydro
- Existing regional Tier-1 supplier with a Henderson, Webster, Daviess, and Vanderburgh labor-shed reach and aluminum-industry familiarity
- Specialty across refractory, industrial electrical, non-ferrous scrap feedstock, die-cast billet customer base, or industrial cleaning
- Supply-chain access and a working relationship with the Koch Enterprises and Norsk Hydro parent organizations
Reserved for a later pass. At today's scope, the aluminum-refractory and industrial-electrical outage-crew candidate is the working-operator lane on the Tier-2 and Tier-3 bench downstream of the three primes.
An Ellis Park Race Course-adjacent concessioner or food-and-beverage operator, if any concessioner scope surfaces outside Churchill Downs Incorporated's direct-operator posture. Acquirer-track only; conditional on verifying that the scope exists at all. Name withheld pending consent

Ellis Park concessioner or food-and-beverage acquirer
- Concessioner scope at Ellis Park that sits outside Churchill Downs Incorporated's direct-operator posture
- Historical-racing-machine count, dining and event capacity, and seasonal-versus-permanent staffing structure
- Procurement-channel transparency at the corporate level
Reserved for a later pass. At today's scope, the bi-state day-tour operator candidate bundles Audubon State Park, Ellis Park, downtown Henderson, and cross-river Evansville as the working-operator lane.

Bridged

Already-bridged operators — reference benchmarks, not targets

Operators whose succession transitions are publicly executed. Included as the local pattern, not as acquisition opportunities.

No entries surfaced in this analysis.

What we ruled out — and why.

We ruled these out because each one loses to a stronger candidate already on this list. Three features run side by side in Henderson: the three corporate-parent-distinct aluminum sites at Robards, Ohio Drive, and Atkinson Street; the three municipal utilities co-located at 100 Fifth Street; and the density of Indiana corporate parents — Deaconess Health System over Deaconess Henderson Hospital, Koch Enterprises over Audubon Metals, and CenterPoint Energy's Indiana subsidiary over portions of the county's gas and electric service.

Cuts below either credit non-Henderson place-of-performance to Henderson, lean on captive-prime dynamics that erase founder margins, repeat a mechanic we have already published at smaller scale, or sit above what a working operator can finance.

Place-of-performance that should not be credited to Henderson

Sebree Station and the River View coal mine

The Sebree Station generating plant is in Webster County and retired its coal generation in June 2022; the River View Coal mine is in Union County. The City of Sebree itself straddles the Webster-Henderson line, which makes the geography easy to confuse, but neither of these is a Henderson-resident operating site.
NextEra Sebree Solar Energy Center

The 250-to-400-megawatt solar center under construction is across the line in Webster County, despite the Henderson-adjacent footprint. Reference for context only when sizing the solar O&M lane.
Big Rivers Electric Corporation headquarters

Big Rivers relocated its corporate headquarters from 201 Third Street in Henderson to Owensboro in 2023 after about 62 years. The Henderson-resident anchor on the cooperative side is Kenergy Corp. at 6402 Old Corydon Road.
ALCOA Warrick Operations, St. Vincent Evansville, Toyota Boshoku, and the Evansville corporate roster

All of these sit in Vanderburgh, Posey, or Warrick counties in Indiana. Reference for labor-shed and commute context only.

Captive-prime dynamics that kill founder math

Direct supply contract with Century, Audubon Metals, or Hydro

All three primes run corporate vendor-master systems with multi-year sustainment-supply contracts. The directly addressable surface is the Tier-2 and Tier-3 industrial-trades vendor bench downstream of each prime's planned-outage and emergency-response windows, not the prime itself.
Direct hospital food-service, laundry, or environmental-services contract with Deaconess Henderson

Deaconess Health System procures institutional facilities-services at the system level through Aramark, Sodexo, and similar national incumbents. The staffing candidate sells nurse, CNA, and LPN labor under the Nurse Licensure Compact, not facilities-services direct contracts.
Direct supply contract with Tyson Robards, Columbia Sportswear Robards, or Pratt Industries Henderson

All three carry national vendor-master systems with multi-year supply contracts at the parent level. Henderson-site direct prime access is not the founder lane.
Direct Churchill Downs Incorporated gaming-operations or historical-racing-machine supply

Churchill Downs Incorporated runs Ellis Park inside its corporate gaming-operations vendor-master system with national machine vendors and regional food-and-beverage incumbents. The day-tour candidate bundles Ellis Park as a visitor stop, not as a procurement counterparty.

Mechanics already published in other counties at smaller scale

DLA Troop Support apparel-compliance bundle

That bundle ran in Carter County downstream of two DLA-prime apparel manufacturers. Henderson's manufacturing roster is aluminum, food processing, packaging, and chemicals — not DLA apparel. The compliance regime and customer set are not the same.
Single-state non-emergency medical transportation

Calloway's non-emergency medical transportation candidate ran on a bilateral Kentucky-Tennessee Medicaid pattern with a corridor-specific moat. Henderson has cross-river commuter and visitor flow but no military installation or tax-arbitrage moat; the bilateral nurse and CNA staffing candidate uses a different mechanism.
Dual-regional-aggregator facilities-services bundle

Carter's facilities-services bundle ran across two regional aggregators headquartered in-county. Henderson's tri-utility candidate runs across three distinct co-located municipal-utility regimes at 100 Fifth Street — a different geometry.
Eastern Kentucky coal-county framing

Bell and Pike sit inside the Eastern Kentucky coal frame. Henderson is not a coal-production county; the closest coal facts belong to Webster (Sebree Station) and Union (River View Coal), not Henderson.

Capital wrong-sized for working operators

Hospice license acquisition under Certificate of Need

The Certificate of Need regime restricts greenfield entry and structures the deal as a license acquisition above the working-operator capital range. Preserved on the businesses-for-sale list for a later pass.
Aluminum-cluster Tier-1 supplier acquisition

A regional Tier-1 supplier acquisition around Audubon Metals or Hydro sits in search-fund or family-capital territory above the working-operator range. Preserved for a later pass.
Ellis Park concessioner acquirer

Conditional on the concessioner scope existing outside Churchill Downs Incorporated's direct-operator posture at all. Preserved for a later pass.
Big Rivers Electric pre-relocation Henderson-headquarters acquisition

Big Rivers moved its corporate headquarters to Owensboro in 2023; the Henderson-headquartered version no longer exists.

Frequently asked questions.

What are the largest employers in Henderson County, Kentucky?: Three corporate-parent-distinct aluminum sites lead the manufacturing payroll: Century Aluminum's Sebree smelter at Robards, Audubon Metals on Ohio Drive (subsidiary of Koch Enterprises in Evansville), and Hydro Aluminum on Atkinson Street (subsidiary of Norsk Hydro in Oslo, with an $85 million HyForge casthouse coming online in 2026). Deaconess Henderson Hospital and the public-sector roster — Henderson County Schools, Henderson Community College, the City of Henderson and its three municipal utilities — round out the top employers.
Is Henderson County part of the Evansville metropolitan area?: Yes. Henderson is the only Kentucky principal county of the Evansville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which also includes Vanderburgh, Posey, and Warrick counties in Indiana. The City of Henderson sits twelve miles south of downtown Evansville across the US-41 Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges. The Henderson-Evansville I-69 Ohio River Crossing bridge is under construction with a 2031 target completion.
How is Deaconess Henderson Hospital connected to Indiana?: Deaconess Henderson Hospital is the former Methodist Hospital at 1305 North Elm Street. It joined Deaconess Health System of Evansville, Indiana on July 1, 2020 per the Deaconess press release and Becker's Hospital Review. The hospital operates the Methodist Comprehensive Breast Center, an outpatient cluster, and the Henderson Clinic ambulatory. The Community Program Fund continues as the merger residual, with a $70,000 grant cycle in June 2025.
What business opportunities exist in Henderson County under $300,000 startup capital?: Two candidates on this report fit that range. The bilateral KY-IN nurse and CNA staffing agency feeds Deaconess Henderson and Evansville cross-river under the Nurse Licensure Compact. The bi-state day-tour operator bundles John James Audubon State Park, Ellis Park, downtown Henderson, and cross-river Evansville under KY-IN motor-carrier authority. Both run below $340,000 in founder-side capital.
Where is the Century Aluminum Sebree smelter?: The Sebree smelter is at 1230 Wheatcroft Road in Robards inside Henderson County, despite the Sebree name. The City of Sebree itself straddles the Webster-Henderson line, and the retired Sebree Station generating plant is in Webster — the geography is easy to confuse. The smelter runs about 220,000 metric tonnes per year of primary aluminum and is one of two operating primary smelters in the United States per company materials.
What is the I-69 Ohio River Crossing project?: The Henderson-Evansville I-69 Ohio River Crossing is a new bridge connecting Kentucky and Indiana along the Interstate 69 alignment. The Indiana Department of Transportation is the lead agency, partnering with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, with a target completion date of 2031. The project is in multi-package construction-letting. The state DOT pass-through to Henderson place-of-performance work — $216.8 million across 49 DOT awards over three years — reflects this and other I-69, Audubon Parkway, US-41, KY-9, and KY-136 work.
What anchors Henderson County's tourism economy?: John James Audubon State Park on US-41 holds what the Kentucky Department of Parks and Recreation calls the world's largest display of Audubon originals and artifacts, with three galleries chronicling Audubon's 1810-1819 residency in Henderson, a complete set of The Birds of America, and more than 200 artifacts. Ellis Park Race Course, just south of the Bi-State Bridges, runs thoroughbred racing and historical-racing-machine gaming under Churchill Downs Incorporated, which acquired the track on September 26, 2022 for $79 million cash.
Who runs the local government in Henderson?: Mayor Brad Staton leads the City of Henderson under the mayor-council form set out in KRS 83A. Judge-Executive Brad Schneider heads the Henderson County Fiscal Court. Dr. Bob Lawson has served as superintendent of Henderson County Schools since December 2020 per WSON Radio and Henderson Family Magazine. The City of Henderson also operates Henderson Municipal Power & Light, Henderson Municipal Gas, and Henderson Water Utility — three distinct utilities at a single shared address at 100 Fifth Street.

How we read this place.

How we read this place. Henderson is the only Kentucky principal county of the Evansville Metropolitan Statistical Area, sitting twelve miles south of downtown Evansville across the US-41 Bi-State Bridges. Three structural features define the working economy: three corporate-parent-distinct aluminum sites at Robards, Ohio Drive, and Atkinson Street; three distinct municipal utilities co-located at 100 Fifth Street; and a density of Indiana corporate parents over Henderson-resident operating sites — Deaconess Health System, Koch Enterprises, and CenterPoint Energy chief among them.

Six candidates run at $75,000 to $800,000 in founder capital. They map to the three features and to the procurement channels they open: an aluminum-refractory and industrial-electrical outage-crew bundle serving the Tier-2 and Tier-3 vendor bench downstream of Century, Audubon, and Hydro; a bilateral KY-IN nurse and CNA staffing agency into Deaconess Henderson and Evansville cross-river under the Nurse Licensure Compact; a multi-trade operator across the school district, the community college, and the Housing Authority of Henderson under the three procurement codes that govern them; a tri-utility procurement-services and facilities-aggregator bundle across HMP&L, HMG, and HWU; a solar and battery field-service operator across Rock Bluff Energy Park and Geronimo Power; and a bi-state day-tour operator bundling Audubon State Park, Ellis Park, downtown Henderson, and cross-river Evansville under KY-IN motor-carrier authority.

Several factual corrections shape the published frame. The Century Aluminum Sebree smelter sits in Robards inside Henderson County despite the Sebree name; the City of Sebree itself straddles the Webster-Henderson line, and Sebree Station — the retired coal generating plant — sits in Webster. River View Coal is in Union County, not Henderson. NextEra's Sebree Solar Energy Center, currently under construction, is in Webster. Big Rivers Electric relocated its corporate headquarters from Henderson to Owensboro in 2023; the Henderson-resident anchor on the cooperative side is Kenergy Corp. Deaconess Henderson Hospital is the former Methodist Hospital and joined Deaconess Health System of Evansville on July 1, 2020. The Henderson-versus-Cincinnati corporate residency for Clarke Power Services — the firm with the largest federal-award count in the county — remains open.

We separate work product from operational employment. The Executive Office of the Commonwealth of Kentucky's $216.8 million across 49 DOT awards is Henderson place-of-performance work; the operational employment runs through KYTC District 2 personnel plus private primes and subcontractors, not through a Henderson-resident firm. The C. J. Mahan Construction $5.15 million DOD award is also place-of-performance only. The aluminum primes' employment is Henderson-resident, but the three primes are not the founder customer — the outage-crew candidate sells to the regional Tier-2 and Tier-3 vendor bench downstream of planned-outage and emergency-response demand windows.

Source families. We pulled the federal business-mix and contracting data, the Census ACS five-year and decennial demographics, Kentucky Secretary of State business-entity filings, published materials from Century Aluminum, Audubon Metals, Hydro Aluminum, Deaconess Health System, Churchill Downs Incorporated, Big Rivers Electric, and Kenergy, the Governor's HyForge announcement, joint INDOT and KYTC communications on the Ohio River Crossing project, Kentucky Department of Education and KSBA records, and the local news capture from the Henderson Gleaner, The Hendersonian, WSON Radio, Tristate Homepage, 14News Evansville, and the Evansville Courier & Press.

Source families

Census Bureau (ACS 2024 5-yr; CBP 2024; County Business Patterns; Census QuickFacts; 2020 Decennial; WorldPopulationReview 2026; FRED KYHEPOP): 2020-2026
Federal top-awardees, business-mix, and chamber-mix data: Captured May 2026
USAspending.gov (federal-award-level records): FY2023-FY2026 3-year window
Kentucky Department of Education + KSBA + KDE School Facilities Branch + henderson.kyschools.us: 2025-2026
Henderson Gleaner + The Hendersonian + WSON Radio + Tristate Homepage + 14News Evansville + Courier & Press Evansville + Henderson Family Magazine + Spectrum News 1 Louisville + Lane Report + WEHT/WFIE: May 2025 - May 2026
KY Cabinet for Economic Development + ARC + Green River Area Development District + KCED + KPDI: 2025-2026
KDPR (parks.ky.gov) + friendsofaudubon.org + KY State Parks + KY Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet: 2025-2026
Century Aluminum (centuryaluminum.com) + AlCircle + Hellenic Shipping News + Recycling Today (Century maintenance + USW + capex coverage): 2024-2026
Audubon Metals (audubonmetals.com) + Koch Enterprises + DENSO supplier-quality records: 2024-2026
Hydro Aluminum + Norsk Hydro IR + newkentuckyhome.ky.gov (Beshear HyForge press release): 2024-2026
Deaconess Health System (deaconess.com) + Becker's Hospital Review + Methodist→Deaconess merger record: 2020-2026
Churchill Downs Incorporated IR (ir.churchilldowns.com) + ESPN + HISA Authority + KY Horse Racing Commission: 2022-2026
Big Rivers Electric (bigrivers.com) + Kenergy Corp. (kenergycorp.com) + KY PSC + MISO market records: 2023-2026
NextEra Energy Resources (nexteraenergyresources.com) + Cordelio Power (Toronto) + Geronimo Power / National Grid Renewables (Bloomington MN) + KY PSC renewable-energy filings: 2024-2026
INDOT + KYTC joint I-69 Ohio River Crossing project office + FHWA + Lane Report + Waterways Journal: 2024-2031 horizon
FCC National Broadband Map + KY Office of Broadband Development + FCC USF records: 2025-2026
HRSA Health Center Program directory + KY DPH + KY CHFS + KY Board of Medical Licensure + KBN + ISBN + NCSBN NLC: 2025-2026
FMCSA NRCME + KY DMS managed-care + KRS 304.17A-138 telehealth-parity statutes + KY DOI: 2025-2026
EPA SDWA + CWA + LCRR + Clean Watersheds Needs Survey + PHMSA 49 CFR Part 192 + KY-811: 2024-2026
DOD CMMC AB + DLA + Department of Commerce DPAS + Berry Amendment 10 USC § 2533a + USACE Louisville District + USCG 8th District + FAA AIP: 2024-2026

Full source register with claim-level provenance is maintained internally and available on request.

Acronyms used in this report.

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ACS — American Community Survey: Census Bureau 5-year estimates.
AIP — Airport Improvement Program: Federal Aviation Administration capital-grant channel.
BESS — Battery Energy Storage System
CDI — Churchill Downs Incorporated
CFP — Capital Fund Program: HUD public-housing capital channel.
CHFS — Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
CNA — Certified Nursing Assistant
CON — Certificate of Need: Kentucky regime under KRS Chapter 216B.
CWA — Clean Water Act
DLA — Defense Logistics Agency
DOD — U.S. Department of Defense
DOT — U.S. Department of Transportation
EPA — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FAA — Federal Aviation Administration
FHWA — Federal Highway Administration
FTE — Full-Time Equivalent
HCC — Henderson Community College: KCTCS member campus at 2660 South Green Street, Henderson.
HCS — Henderson County Schools
HCV — Housing Choice Voucher: HUD Section 8 tenant-based program.
HISA — Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act
HMG — Henderson Municipal Gas
HMP&L — Henderson Municipal Power & Light
HRM — Historical Racing Machine
HUD — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HWU — Henderson Water Utility
IBEW — International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
INDOT — Indiana Department of Transportation
KCTCS — Kentucky Community & Technical College System
KDPR — Kentucky Department of Parks and Recreation
KRS — Kentucky Revised Statutes
KSBA — Kentucky School Boards Association
KYTC — Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
LCRR — Lead and Copper Rule Revisions: EPA service-line inventory regime.
LPN — Licensed Practical Nurse
MSA — Metropolitan Statistical Area
NAICS — North American Industry Classification System
NLC — Nurse Licensure Compact: Multistate nurse-licensure agreement; Kentucky and Indiana both participate.
PHMSA — Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
PSC — Kentucky Public Service Commission
RN — Registered Nurse
SBA — Small Business Administration
SDWA — Safe Drinking Water Act
STBG — Surface Transportation Block Grant
USACE — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USDA — U.S. Department of Agriculture
USW — United Steelworkers

Disclosures.

Items we have not independently confirmed, items under active litigation, and items where the responsible party is not publicly named. Listed so a reader can weight the report accordingly.

Unverified Century Aluminum Sebree employment, USW Local representation, recent capex, and energy-procurement contract structure
Unverified Audubon Metals Henderson employment, labor representation, and primary OEM customer list
Unverified Hydro Aluminum Henderson pre-HyForge employment and HyForge construction-management prime identity
Unverified Deaconess Henderson Hospital bed count, FTE, named CEO and COO, and recent capex commitments
Unverified Henderson County Schools 2025-26 enrollment, preschool-expansion capex band, and named Board of Education roster
Pending City of Henderson 2026 incumbency for Mayor Brad Staton against post-primary County Clerk election records
Pending Henderson County Fiscal Court 2026 incumbency for Judge-Executive Brad Schneider against post-primary County Clerk election records
Unverified HMP&L current generation portfolio, Station Two redevelopment plan, and employment FTE
Unverified Housing Authority of Henderson public-housing bed count, Housing Choice Voucher allocation, and named executive director
Unverified Henderson County Riverport annual tonnage, named operating contractor, and bulk-dock May 2026 opening readiness
Unverified Clarke Power Services Inc. Henderson-versus-Cincinnati corporate residency and NAICS-breadth verification (the highest-priority open item)
Unverified Rock Bluff Energy Park (Cordelio Power) solar and battery capacity, in-service date, and off-taker structure
Unverified Geronimo Power Henderson-resident project status, capacity, and operating-site address
Unverified Ellis Park seasonal-versus-permanent staffing, historical-racing-machine count, and any concessioner-reserved scope outside Churchill Downs Incorporated's direct-operator posture
Pending I-69 Henderson-Evansville Ohio River Crossing construction-letting schedule and KYTC-versus-INDOT Henderson place-of-performance share
Unverified Kenergy Corp. customer count, FTE, and full service-territory county list
Unverified Matthew 25 AIDS Services Inc. service catchment, named executive director, and HHS award scope breakdown
Unverified Redbanks bed count, FTE, and ownership structure (501c3 nonprofit versus for-profit)
Unverified St. Anthony's Hospice average daily census, referral mix, and Certificate of Need status

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Published: May 15, 2026
Last updated: May 15, 2026

Henderson County

What this place actually is.

The candidates.

Refractory and industrial-electrical outage crew

Bilateral KY-IN nurse staffing agency

Triple-procurement-code multi-trade contractor

Tri-utility procurement and gas-mains bundle

Solar and battery O&M field service

Bi-state Audubon and Ellis Park day-tour operator

Who to call this week.

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Operators in this market.

Acquisition register.

Strongest succession signal

Some signals, not all

Long tenure, no exit signal yet

Already-bridged operators — reference benchmarks, not targets

What we ruled out — and why.

Place-of-performance that should not be credited to Henderson

Captive-prime dynamics that kill founder math

Mechanics already published in other counties at smaller scale

Capital wrong-sized for working operators

Frequently asked questions.

How we read this place.

Acronyms used in this report.

Disclosures.