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Kentucky Bend is the extreme southwestern corner of Kentucky. The peninsula is traversed by the southern line of latitude of the state of Kentucky, at the banks of the Mississippi River. The only highway into the area is Tennessee State Route 22, [4] whose continuation into Kentucky Bend at one time was signed as Kentucky State Route 313. [5]
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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 lowest point in the state of Kentucky is located on the Mississippi River in Kentucky Bend in Fulton County, where it flows past Kentucky and between Tennessee and Missouri. It is expected that over time, the river will cut across the short neck of the peninsula, cutting it off entirely from Kentucky, with land gradually filling in behind ...
KY 3048 west (Old Kentucky 114) / Mountain Parkway west – Lexington, Campton: Eastern terminus of KY 3048; eastern terminus of Mountain Parkway: 130.319: 209.728: KY 1888 east (Burning Fork Road) / KY 1415 east (Rockhouse Fork Road) Western terminus of KY 1888; western terminus of KY 1415 130.768: 210.451: KY 114 east – Prestonsburg, Pikeville
Kentucky (US: / k ə n ˈ t ʌ k i / ⓘ, UK: / k ɛ n-/), [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 west.
By 1819 [1] it was surveyed as far west as the Mississippi River near New Madrid, Missouri, where it created the Kentucky Bend. It is a historic civil engineering landmark, as designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It would later be said of the project: The boundary Charles II envisioned was one of the most grandiose in history.
Kentucky Route 18 (KY 18), also known as Burlington Pike, is a state highway that serves as a major road through Florence and Burlington in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The western terminus of the route is at KY 338 in Rabbit Hash. The eastern terminus is at KY 1017 in Florence.