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The site was first settled in 1871 by brothers Gustavus A. and Edwin S. Graham, primary shareholders in the Texas Emigration and Land Company of Louisville, Kentucky.The brothers moved to Texas after the Civil War, and after buying 125,000 acres (510 km 2) in then-vast Young County, helped to revitalize the area, the population of which had become badly depleted during the war.
Johnson City is a city and the county seat of Blanco County, Texas, United States. [6] The population was 1,627 at the 2020 census. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] Founded in 1879, it was named for early settler James Polk Johnson, nephew to Sam E. Johnson, Sr. [ 8 ] Johnson City is part of the Texas-German belt region.
List of counties in Texas. The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [ 1 ] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants.
Black Mountain is the highest mountain peak in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, United States, with a summit elevation of 4,145 feet (1,263 m) [ 2 ] above mean sea level and a top-to-bottom height of over 2,500 feet (760 m). The summit is located at approximately 36°54′51″N82°53′38″W / 36.91417°N 82.89389°W in Harlan County ...
Fort Belknap, located near Newcastle, Texas, was established in November 1851 [ 3 ] by brevet Brigadier General William G. Belknap to protect the Texas frontier against raids by the Kiowa and Comanche. It was the northernmost fort in a line from the Rio Grande to the Red River. The fort functioned as a base of operations rather than as a ...
The Woodlands Trace National Scenic Byway, also known as " The Trace," is the major north–south roadway that traverses the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in two counties in western Kentucky and northwestern Stewart County in northwest Middle Tennessee. [2] It is estimated to be 43.1 miles (69.4 km) in length.
66 cu ft/s (1.9 m 3 /s) • maximum. 85,500 cu ft/s (2,420 m 3 /s) The Levisa Fork (also known as the Levisa Fork River or the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River) is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, approximately 164 miles (264 km) long, [3] in southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky in the United States.
Map of the United States with Kentucky highlighted. Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. [1] The two largest, 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 and Lexington.