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In 1780, Kentucky County was divided into Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln counties. Kentucky was admitted as a state in 1792, when it had nine counties. [4] Each county has a legislative council called the fiscal court; [5] despite the name, it no longer has any responsibility for judicial proceedings. [6]
County courthouses in Kentucky (33 P) Pages in category "County government buildings in Kentucky" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
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The county was named after Charles Scott, an American Revolutionary War general who later was Kentucky's fourth governor. The first Scott County Courthouse was built in 1792 on a 1-acre (4,000 m 2) lot sold to the county by Elijah Craig. The original building was replaced by a larger structure.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 159 square miles (410 km 2), of which 151 square miles (390 km 2) is land and 8.1 square miles (21 km 2) (5.1%) is water. [9] It is the fourth-smallest county in Kentucky by land area and fifth-smallest by total area. It lies along the Ohio and Licking Rivers.
CU Scarborough is part of the Scarborough £50 million education and sport campus, with the neighbouring Sports Village operated by Everyone Active, offering an Olympic Legacy swimming pool, a four-court sports hall, a multi-activity room, 60-station fitness suite and a community football stadium home to Scarborough Athletic F.C. [5]
Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census , the population was 51,541, making it the second-least populous capital county in the United States after Hughes County , South Dakota . [ 2 ]
As of 2012, Cumberland County had the fewest registered Democrats, 844, out of all of Kentucky's counties. [17] The last Democrat to carry Cumberland County at the Presidential level was Horatio Seymour in 1868. Lyndon Johnson, in his 1964 landslide, is the only Democrat to receive 40% of the county's vote in a presidential election since 1896.