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Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and developed using funds appropriated during the Johnson administration .
List of lakes of Kentucky. Kentucky Lake. Kincaid Lake. Martins Fork Lake. Paintsville Lake. Shanty Hollow Lake. The following is a list of lakes and reservoirs in the state of Kentucky in the United States. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Lake Barkley (extends into Tennessee)
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. All other cities have a different form of ...
London is a home rule-class city [4] in Laurel County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. [5] The population was 8,053 at the time of the 2020 census. [6] It is the second-largest city named "London" in the United States and the fourth-largest in the world. [citation needed] It is part of the London, Kentucky ...
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...
Much of the Somerset area housing growth in the last 20 years is lake-oriented. As of the census [15] of 2000, there were 11,352 people, 4,831 households, and 2,845 families residing within the City of Somerset (proper). The population density for the city proper was 1,007.1 persons per square mile (388.8 persons/km 2). A karst valley occupies ...
The 160,309-acre (649 km 2) lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the United States east of the Mississippi River, with 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline. Kentucky Lake has a flood storage capacity of 4,008,000 acre⋅ft (4.944 km 3), more than 2.5 times the next largest lake in the TVA system.
Fulton County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Kentucky, with the Mississippi River forming its western boundary. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,515. [1] Its county seat is Hickman and its largest city is Fulton. [2] The county was formed in 1845 from Hickman County, Kentucky and named for Robert Fulton, the inventor ...