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Because today's largest county by area, Pike County, is 788 square miles (2,041 km 2), it is only still possible to form a new county from portions of more than one existing county; McCreary County was formed in this manner, from parts of Wayne, Pulaski and Whitley counties. Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776.
Kentucky County, Virginia, 1777–1780; District of Kentucky (Fayette, Jefferson, Lincoln, and successor counties), 1780–1792; Commonwealth of Kentucky becomes 15th State admitted to the United States of America on June 1, 1792 Abraham Lincoln born in 1809 in Kentucky; Henry Clay, politician 1800–1850; War of 1812, June 18, 1812 – March ...
Kentucky has both the largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi in water volume (Lake Cumberland) and surface area (Kentucky Lake). Kentucky Lake's 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline, 160,300 acres (64,900 hectares) of water surface, and 4,008,000 acre-feet (4.9 billion cubic meters) of flood storage are the most of any lake in the TVA ...
The county was formed, as Kentucky's 95th county, from portions of Harlan, Perry, and Pike counties, and named for Robert P. Letcher, who was the governor of Kentucky at that time. Its county seat, Whitesburg, was called Summit City before becoming the county seat. The city was renamed from Summit City to Whitesburg in 1842, in honor of John D ...
English: This is a locator map showing Floyd County in Kentucky. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
Whitley County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,712. [1] Its county seat is at Williamsburg, [2] though the largest city is Corbin, and the county's District Court (a trial court of limited jurisdiction) sits in both cities.
Clay County had the highest poverty level among the 10 poorest counties at 35.9%, the Census Bureau reports, compared to Kentucky’s statewide poverty level of 16.5%. Wolfe County had the lowest ...
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 .