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Barren County and Warren County. John Allen (1771–1813), hero of the Battle of Frenchtown in the War of 1812. 21,788. 346 sq mi (896 km 2) Anderson County. 005. Lawrenceburg. 1827. Franklin County, Washington County and Mercer County.
Magnetic potential map of the Reelfoot Rift. The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri.
Dawson County, formed in 1858 in what is now Kinney County and Uvalde County and abolished in 1866 (not to be confused with the present-day Dawson County). Encinal County, formed in 1856. Abolished in 1899 and annexed to Webb County. Foley County, formed in 1887 from Presidio County. Annexed in 1897 to Brewster County.
Fayette County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky and is consolidated with the city of Lexington. As of the 2020 census , the population was 322,570, [ 1 ] making it the second-most populous county in the commonwealth .
The Mason–Dixon line, where the Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail becomes the York County Heritage Trail near New Freedom, Pennsylvania. The Mason–Dixon line is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as part of the ...
The Jackson Purchase, also known as the Purchase Region or simply the Purchase, is a region in the U.S. state of Kentucky bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Tennessee River to the east. [1] Jackson's Purchase also included all of Tennessee west of the Tennessee River.
oldhamcountyky.gov. Oldham County is a county located in the north central part of the U.S. state and commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,607. [1] Its county seat is La Grange. [2] The county is named for Colonel William Oldham. Oldham County is part of the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY– IN Metropolitan ...
Kentucky (US: / k ə n ˈ t ʌ k i / ⓘ kən-TUK-ee, UK: / k ɛ n-/ ken-), [5] officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, [c] is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and Missouri to the ...