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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 ...
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.
606. FIPS code. 21-33004. GNIS feature ID. 0493340. Website. www.greenupky.net. Greenup is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Greenup County, Kentucky, United States, located at the confluence of the Little Sandy River with the Ohio River. [2] The population was 1,095 at the 2020 census.
Murray is a home rule-class city [4] in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States.It is the seat of Calloway County [5] and the 19th-largest city in Kentucky. [6] The city's population was 17,741 during the 2010 U.S. census, [7] and its micropolitan area's population is 37,191.
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.
Added to NRHP. October 15, 1966. The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located at the border between Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, centered on the Cumberland Gap, a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains. The park lies in parts of Bell and Harlan counties in Kentucky, Claiborne County ...
The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but the only one 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.
Location of Williamsburg in Whitley County, Kentucky. Williamsburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Whitley County, on the southeastern border of Kentucky, United States. [6] The population was 5,326 at the 2020 census. Developed along the Cumberland River, the city was founded in 1818 and named after William Whitley.