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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 ...
Map of the United States with Kentucky highlighted. Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. [1] The two most populous cities, Louisville and Lexington, are designated "first class" cities. A first class city would normally have a mayor-alderman government, but that does not apply to the merged governments in Louisville ...
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
Three counties in Florida's Tampa area make up a region sometimes called "sinkhole alley" because of the over 20,000 sinkholes there, almost 75% of the sinkholes in the whole state, according to ...
The last Corvette has been pulled out from the 60-foot sinkhole in Kentucky, and it's not lookin' too pretty. HLN has more. 'The owner of the final corvette pulled out of a sinkhole in Kentucky ...
From a 1939 flood that killed 79 people, to a 1997 flood that affected 50,000 homes in just one city, here are some of the past major flooding events in Kentucky.
The 2010 Guatemala City sinkhole. 2007 Guatemala City sinkhole – a 100 m (330 ft) deep sinkhole which formed in 2007 due to sewage pipe ruptures. 2010 Guatemala City sinkhole – a disaster in which an area approximately 20 m (65 ft) across and 90 m (300 ft) deep collapsed, swallowing a three-story factory.
The Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) is a department of the University of Kentucky that provides information on the geology of Kentucky, but has variously over the course of its history been a state level office, or a sub-division of a state combined geology and forestry department, at times its official State Geologist being prohibited by law from being associated with the University of Kentucky.