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Newfoundland (also Crackers Neck) is an unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky, United States. It lies along Routes 7 and 32 north of the city of Sandy Hook, the county seat of Elliott County. [1] Its elevation is 643 feet (196 m). [2]
The black line is the proclamation boundary. Green represents Forest Service land. White areas within the boundary are privately or locally owned. The inset map shows the ranger districts. In 1900, Congress appropriated $5,000, and again in 1907, $25,000 for the investigation of areas in southern Appalachia, for potential purchase as a national ...
Paint Creek Lake Wildlife Area. Size: 11.024 acres for public hunting and fishing. Popular for Hunting: Bobwhite quail, ring-necked pheasant, cottontail rabbit, white-tailed deer, fox and gray ...
USGS physiographic map of Kentucky showing the location of the Knobs. The Knobs Region or The Knobs is located in the US state of Kentucky. It is a narrow, arc-shaped region consisting of hundreds of isolated hills. The region wraps around the southern and eastern parts of the Bluegrass region in the north central to northeastern part of the state.
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 ...
Area Barren River Lake State Resort Park: Barren County [3] Park: 2,187 acres (8.9 km 2) Lake: 10,000 acres (40 km 2) Blue Licks Battlefield State Park: Robertson County [3] 148 acres (0.60 km 2) Breaks Interstate Park: Pike County, Kentucky; Dickenson and Buchanan County, Virginia [7] Park: 4,600 acres (19 km 2) [7] Lake: 12 acres (0.05 km 2) [8]
Public use is limited to 4,000 acres on the northeast corner of the refuge surrounding Old Timbers Lake. Over 200 species of birds and 46 species of mammals are found on the refuge. [1] Public uses of the refuge include hunting (white-tailed deer and wild turkey), fishing, and bird-watching. [4]
The first map of Kentucky, presented in 1784 by author John Filson to the United States Congress [2]. Author, historian, founder and surveyor John Filson worked as a schoolteacher in Lexington, Kentucky and wrote The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke in 1784.