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Cumberland is a home rule-class city [4] in Harlan County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population according to the 2010 Census was 2,237, [ 5 ] down from 2,611 at the 2000 census. The city sits at the confluence of Looney Creek and the Poor Fork Cumberland River .
Harlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,831. [1] Its county seat is Harlan. [2] It is classified as a moist county—one in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city—in this case Cumberland, where package alcohol sales are allowed.
Kingdom Come State Park is a part of Kentucky's state park system in Harlan County atop Pine Mountain near the city of Cumberland.It was named after the 1903 best-selling novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by native Kentuckian John Fox, Jr. [2] Features of the park include Raven Rock, Log Rock, and a 3.5-acre (1.4 ha) mountain lake.
October 15, 1966. The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located at the border between Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, centered on the Cumberland Gap, a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains. The park lies in parts of Bell and Harlan counties in Kentucky, Claiborne County in Tennessee ...
Harlan is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. [3] The population was 1,745 at the 2010 census , [ 4 ] down from 2,081 at the 2000 census. Harlan is one of three Kentucky county seats to share its name with its county, the others being Greenup and Henderson .
Lynch is located in eastern Harlan County at 36°57′54″N 82°55′00″W (36.965133, -82.916569), [4] in the valley of Looney Creek. Lynch is the nearest city to Kentucky's highest point, Black Mountain (4,145 ft or 1,263 m). Sitting at an elevation of 1,716 feet (523 m) above sea level.
Progression. Cumberland — Ohio — Mississippi. The Clover Fork is a 30-mile (48 km) [3] tributary of the Cumberland River, draining a section of the Appalachian Mountains in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in the United States. The river's confluence with the Martin's Fork at Harlan marks the official beginning of the Cumberland River.
The Poor Fork is a 45-mile (72 km) [3] tributary of the Cumberland River in Letcher and Harlan Counties, southeast Kentucky, in the United States. [1] The river flows from its source at Flat Gap in Letcher County, on the Kentucky–Virginia border, generally southwest to where it meets Martin's Fork in Baxter to form the Cumberland River.