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The 3-year average unemployment rate for the Appalachian region in 2006-2008 was 5.2%. The region's per capita market income in 2007 was $24,360. The region's poverty rate was 13.6%. [1] Alabama's Appalachian counties led all states' Appalachian counties in unemployment (3.8%) and per capita market income ($27,723).
A. Adair County, Kentucky; Adams County, Ohio; Alcorn County, Mississippi; Allegany County, Maryland; Allegany County, New York; Alleghany County, North Carolina
The states selected were Alabama (15 counties), Kentucky (12 counties), North Carolina (12 counties), Tennessee (14 counties), Virginia (12 counties), and West Virginia (15 counties). Map showing the 80 counties included in the 1982 report by the Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
The Eastern Kentucky Coalfield is part of the Central Appalachian bituminous coalfield, including all or parts of 30 Kentucky counties and adjoining areas in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee. [3] It covers an area from the Allegheny Mountains in the east across the Cumberland Plateau to the Pottsville Escarpment in the west.
The mountain top removal method of coal mining, in which entire mountain tops are removed, is currently threatening vast areas and ecosystems of the Appalachian Mountain region. [31] The surface coal mining that started in the 1940s has significantly impacted the central Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky , Tennessee , Virginia and West Virginia.
William Owsley, Kentucky Secretary of State and later Governor of Kentucky (1844–48) 4,001: 198 sq mi (513 km 2) Pendleton County: 191: Falmouth: 1798: Campbell County and Bracken County: Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803), member of the Continental Congress: 14,810: 280 sq mi (725 km 2) Perry County: 193: Hazard: 1820: Floyd County and Clay County
Administrative location Highest point Elevation (meter) ... Appalachian Mountains: mountain range: Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia: High Knob:
The Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in the Appalachian Plateau region of the United States.Referred to locally as the "Tri-State area," and colloquially as "Kyova" (Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia), the region spans seven counties in the three states of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. [5]