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Salt Lick is located at the intersection of US 60 and KY 211 beside the Licking River. It is part of the Mount Sterling micropolitan area . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 0.77 square miles (2.0 km 2 ), of which 0.008 square miles (0.02 km 2 ), or 1.15%, is water.
Bullitt's Lick is a historic salt lick 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Shepherdsville in Bullitt County, Kentucky. It was the first commercial supplier of salt in Kentucky, and the first industry in Kentucky as well, supplying jobs for many residents but also using slaves.
The most historic of the county's salt licks, Bullitt's Lick, is named after him. As the Revolutionary War led to widespread salt shortages, the Lick became the site of Kentucky's first industry, attracting many settlers to the area. [7] [8] Colonial veterans of the war were promised land in what was later called Kentucky.
Kentucky Route 211 (KY 211) is a 7.1-mile-long (11.4 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The highway is split into two segments, separated by the Licking River . The southern segment connects mostly rural areas of Bath County with Salt Lick .
The Licking River is a partly navigable, 303-mile-long (488 km) [2] tributary of the Ohio River in northeastern Kentucky.The river and its tributaries drain much of the region of northeastern Kentucky between the watersheds of the Kentucky River to the west and the Big Sandy River to the east.
Big Bone Lick settlement shown in 1785 on a map of the Wilderness Road in Kentucky and Tennessee. Big Bone is an unincorporated community in southern Boone County, Kentucky, United States. It is bounded on the west by the Ohio River, and Rabbit Hash, on the south by Big Bone Creek, which empties into the river at Big Bone Landing.
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.
Eventually, the salt lick went out of business, as it was not as big as other nearby salt licks, such as Bullitt's Lick, and steamboats brought cheaper salt to Louisville. By 1830 the population and salt had dwindled, and by 1890 a change in Kentucky's constitution caused Newtown to officially dissolve. [6]