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Because today's largest county by area, Pike County, is 788 square miles (2,041 km 2), it is only still possible to form a new county from portions of more than one existing county; McCreary County was formed in this manner, from parts of Wayne, Pulaski and Whitley counties. Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776.
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Marion County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the total population was 19,581. [1] Its county seat is Lebanon. [2] The county was founded in 1834 and named for Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War hero known as the "Swamp Fox". [3] [4] [5]
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.
Before 1750, Kentucky was populated nearly exclusively by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and several other tribes of Native Americans [1] See also Pre-Columbian; April 13, 1750 • While leading an expedition for the Loyal Land Company in what is now southeastern Kentucky, Dr. Thomas Walker was the first recorded American of European descent to discover and use coal in Kentucky; [2]
Geography of Woodford County, Kentucky (3 C, 2 P) This page was last edited on 6 September 2020, at 05:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Campbell County was founded December 17, 1794, two years after the creation of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, becoming the state's 19th county. Campbell County was carved out of Scott, Harrison and Mason counties. [5] The original county included all of present Boone, Kenton, Pendleton, and most of Bracken and Grant counties.
See List of counties in Kentucky for a complete list of current and former counties of the state of Kentucky. Pages in category "Former counties of Kentucky" This category contains only the following page.