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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 ] According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the Kentucky Bend covers a land area of 26.9 square miles (69.6 km 2 ), of which 17.5 square miles (45.2 km 2 ) are land and 9.4 square miles (24.4 ...
Barren County and Warren County. John Allen (1771–1813), hero of the Battle of Frenchtown in the War of 1812. 21,788. 346 sq mi (896 km 2) Anderson County. 005. Lawrenceburg. 1827. Franklin County, Washington County and Mercer County.
Kentucky has both the largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi in water volume (Lake Cumberland) and surface area (Kentucky Lake). Kentucky Lake's 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline, 160,300 acres (64,900 hectares) of water surface, and 4,008,000 acre-feet (4.9 billion cubic meters) of flood storage are the most of any lake in the TVA ...
The Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in the Appalachian Plateau region of the United States. Referred to locally as the " Tri-State area," and colloquially as "Kyova" (K entuck y, O hio, and West V irgini a), the region spans seven counties in the three states of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. [3]
21-82776. GNIS feature ID. 0506678. Website. www.cityofwhitesburg.com. Whitesburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. [3] The population was 2,139 at the 2010 census [4] and an estimated 1,875 in 2018. [5] It was named for John D. White, a state politician.
The county was founded in December 1798 from land given by Lincoln and Green Counties and named for Polish patriot Count Casimir Pulaski. [3][4][5] Pulaski County comprises the Somerset, KY Micropolitan Statistical Area. Somerset's population is just over 11,000, but the Micropolitan Area for Somerset/Pulaski County is over 65,000.
Category. : Borders of Kentucky. Articles specifically about the borders of U.S. states, not simply about natural features that form the borders, unless there is detailed discussion about the border.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 495 square miles (1,280 km 2), of which 483 square miles (1,250 km 2) is land and 13 square miles (34 km 2) (2.5%) is water. [6] The county's northern border with Ohio is formed by the Ohio River. Its border with the river is the longest of all the Kentucky counties. [7]