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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]
The Kentucky Bend between Missouri and Tennessee. The Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665 selected an arbitrary line of latitude that, extended westward, isolated a bulb-shaped section of Kentucky from the rest of the state, accessible only through Tennessee.
Three separate tripoints, due to meanders of the river (though probably only a single tri-state area surrounding them all). See also Kentucky Bend. Kentucky: Ohio: West Virginia: Big Sandy River and Ohio River: Huntington (W.V.)-Ashland (Ky.)-Ironton (Oh.) Tri-State region.
The Battle of Island Number Ten was an engagement at the New Madrid or Kentucky Bend on the Mississippi River – forming the border between Missouri and Tennessee – during the American Civil War, lasting from February 28 to April 8, 1862.
(The Center Square) – A Missouri delegation is focusing on border security after being briefed with an Operation Lone Star Task Force led by Goliad County, Texas, Sheriff Roy Boyd. The ...
The county is located on the Kentucky Bend of the Mississippi River, which forms a border of the county. This feature is also known as New Madrid Bend or Madrid Bend. This oxbow flows around an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky. Scientists expect that eventually the river will cut a new channel across the narrow neck of the peninsula, which ...
This includes Joplin, a southwestern Missouri town located near the Oklahoma and Kansas state lines in Carter’s district, roughly 1,000 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Welcome centers can be thought as covering several different concepts: state-owned and operated welcome centers near a state's border, state or municipal-owned and operated visitors centers in cities or rural areas, and service plazas on toll roads, e.g. the New Jersey Turnpike or MassPike, that are either state-owned and -operated, state-owned but operated by a private company, or privately ...