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Kentucky Route 15 begins at a junction of US 119/Corridor F & Business KY 15 in Whitesburg, and terminates in Winchester at US 60. It is a major route, connecting the coalfields of the Cumberland Plateau with Lexington and other cities in the Bluegrass region .
A house rests on a bridge on KY-931 near the Whitesburg Recycling Center in Letcher County, Ky., on Friday, July 29, 2022. A Sea-Doo sits outside a restaurant in downtown Whitesburg, Ky., on ...
Whitesburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. [3] The population was at the 2020 census [ 4 ] and an estimated 1,711 in 2022. [ 5 ] It was named for John D. White , a state politician and Speaker of the United States House .
From this point until the base of Pine Mountain (unofficially called Whitesburg Mountain), the highway is largely unchanged from its original route. On the mountain, Hwy 119 has recently been widened in a number of places in order to make it safer for trucking traffic. Across the mountain in Whitesburg, Hwy 119 turns northeast.
Remember to use those turn signals and pay attention as you come to intersections where the light may be out or malfunctioning.
At least eight people were killed in flash flooding that hit eastern Kentucky on Thursday, July 28, local media reported, citing authorities.Gov Andy Beshear said the death toll was expected to ...
The Mountain Eagle is a local weekly newspaper published in Whitesburg, Kentucky. It is the main newspaper of Letcher County, Kentucky and one of the primary newspapers of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield. It was published by Thomas E. Gish until his death in November 2008, and edited by his son, Benjamin T. Gish.
U.S. Route 25E (US 25E) is the eastern branch of US 25 from Newport, Tennessee, where US 25 splits into US 25E and US 25W, to North Corbin, Kentucky, where the two highways rejoin.