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Kentucky has more navigable miles of water than any other state in the union, other than Alaska. [29] Kentucky is the only U.S. state to have a continuous border of rivers running along three of its sides – the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork to the east. [30]
Kentucky is the only state to have a continuous border of rivers running along three of its sides – the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork to the east. [74] Its major internal rivers include the Kentucky River, Tennessee River, Cumberland River, Green River, and Licking River.
Three separate tripoints, due to meanders of the river (though probably only a single tri-state area surrounding them all). See also Kentucky Bend. Kentucky: Ohio: West Virginia: Big Sandy River and Ohio River: Huntington (W.V.)-Ashland (Ky.)-Ironton (Oh.) Tri-State region.
Kentucky that the state line is the low-water mark of the Ohio River's north shore as of Kentucky's admission to the Union in 1792. [2] Because both damming and natural changes have rendered the 1792 shore virtually undetectable in many places, the exact boundary was decided in the 1990s in settlements among the states.
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. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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 ...
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 .
Historical military map of the border and southern states by Phelps & Watson, 1866. In the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states or the Border South were four, later five, slave states in the Upper South that primarily supported the Union. They were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and after 1863, the new state of West ...