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The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.
Kennessee is a term coined to denote land along the Kentucky - Tennessee state border that historically lay between the Walker Line surveyed by Thomas Walker and Daniel Smith in 1779-1780 and the true parallel 36 degrees and 30 minutes surveyed by Thomas J. Matthews in July–September 1826. [1]
Kentucky Bend is the extreme southwestern corner of Kentucky. The peninsula is traversed by the southern line of latitude of the state of Kentucky, at the banks of the Mississippi River. The only highway into the area is Tennessee State Route 22, [4] whose continuation into Kentucky Bend at one time was signed as Kentucky State Route 313. [5]
Kentucky is the only U.S. state to have a continuous border of rivers running along three of its sides – the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork to the east. [30] Its major internal rivers include the Kentucky River, Tennessee River, Cumberland River, Green River and Licking River.
U.S. Route 27 (US 27) in Kentucky runs 201.120 miles (323.671 km) from the Tennessee border to the Ohio border at Cincinnati.It crosses into the state in the Lake Cumberland area, passing near or through many small towns, including Somerset, Stanford, and Nicholasville.
I-75 enters the East Tennessee region from Georgia, following the Tennessee Valley all the way through Knoxville to near Rocky Top, then climbs into the Cumberland Mountains before crossing over into Kentucky at Jellico. Of the six states that I-75 traverses, the segment in Tennessee is the shortest, at 161.86 miles (260.49 km).
Neither the northern nor the southern border of Tennessee follows a geographic feature. The northern border was originally defined as the parallel 36°30′ north and the Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665, but due to faulty surveys, the border begins north of this line in the east, and to the west, gradually veers north with multiple minute ...
The tri-point of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia is located about 0.15 miles (0.24 km) northeast of the tunnel, between the tunnel and the Cumberland Gap. Less than 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) past the southern portal of the tunnel is a parclo interchange with the western terminus of U.S. Route 58 (US 58), and the route crosses a railroad about ...