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Ohio County was formed in 1798 from land taken from Hardin County. [3] Ohio was the 35th Kentucky county in order of formation. [4] It was named for the Ohio River, which originally formed its northern boundary, but it lost its northern portions in 1829, when Daviess County and Hancock County were formed.
English: This is a locator map showing Ohio County in Kentucky. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
Ohio County: 183: Hartford: 1798: Hardin County: The Ohio River, which formed the county's northern border until the creation of Daviess and Hancock counties 23,626: 594 sq mi (1,538 km 2) Oldham County: 185: La Grange: 1823: Henry County, Jefferson County and Shelby County: William Oldham (1753–91), Revolutionary War colonel 70,183: 189 sq ...
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...
U.S. Route 62 (US 62) in Kentucky runs for a total of 391.207 miles (629.587 km) across 20 counties in western, north-central, and northeastern Kentucky. [1] It enters the state by crossing the Ohio River near Wickliffe, then begins heading eastward at Bardwell, and traversing several cities and towns across the state up to Maysville, where it crosses the Ohio River a second time to enter the ...
Rosine (/ r oʊ ˈ z iː n /) is an unincorporated community in Ohio County, Kentucky, United States. [3] Bill Monroe, The Father of Bluegrass, is buried in the Rosine Cemetery and memorialized with a bronze cast disk affixed to the barn where his music remains alive.
The land in the foreground is West Virginia, that on the left is Kentucky, while the background is Ohio. The Big Sandy River, called Sandy Creek as early as 1756, is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 29 miles (47 km) long, [7] in western West Virginia and northeastern Kentucky in the United States. The river forms part of the ...
Landforms of Ohio County, Kentucky (1 C, 1 P) P. Populated places in Ohio County, Kentucky (3 C) Pages in category "Geography of Ohio County, Kentucky"