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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 ...
Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, fourth among states (including Virginia's independent cities). [1] The original motivation for having so many counties was to ensure that residents in the days of poor roads and horseback travel could make a round trip from their home to the county seat in a single day, as well as ...
Map of the United States with Kentucky highlighted. Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. [1] The two most populous cities, 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 ...
The Kentucky Revised Statute 177.020(1) [1] [2] provides that the Department of Highways, a part of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, is responsible for the establishment and classification of a State Primary Road System which includes the state primary routes, interstate highways, parkways and toll roads, state secondary routes, rural secondary routes and supplemental roads.
U.S. Route 27 (US 27) in Kentucky runs 201.120 miles (323.671 km) from the Tennessee border to the Ohio border at Cincinnati.It crosses into the state in the Lake Cumberland area, passing near or through many small towns, including Somerset, Stanford, and Nicholasville.
(now 813 and White City Road) KY 489: 1955 ← 641 KY 489 Kentucky Dam-Kuttawa: 1950C-1955 → US 641 (part) ... and shown on 1959 county map) KY 753 east of Sandy ...
KY-477 in Raymond: KY-261/KY-703 west of Fackler Road — — KY 841: 38.9: 62.6 US 31W / US 60 / KY 1934 near Valley Station: Indiana State Road 265 (Future I-265) on the Lewis and Clark Bridge (Ohio River) — — KY 864: 10.774: 17.339 I-265 in Louisville: US 60 Alt. in Louisville — — KY 876: 2.81: 4.52 I-75 in Richmond: US 25 / US 421 ...
KY 79 north (Caneyville Road) – Caneyville: End concurrency with KY 79: 58.184: 93.638: KY 1328 east (Aberdeen-Jetson Road) Western terminus of KY-1328 58.895: 94.782: KY 70 east (Brownsville Road) – Roundhill, Brownsville, Mammoth Cave National Park: End concurrency with KY 70 61.347: 98.728: KY 1118 north (Gilstrap Road) Southern terminus ...