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Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and developed using funds appropriated during the Johnson administration .
List of lakes of Kentucky. Kentucky Lake. Kincaid Lake. Martins Fork Lake. Paintsville Lake. Shanty Hollow Lake. The following is a list of lakes and reservoirs in the state of Kentucky in the United States. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all. Lake Barkley (extends into Tennessee)
Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. [1] The two largest, 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 and Lexington. All other cities have a different form of ...
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 ...
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
Cadiz (/ ˈ k eɪ d iː z,-d ɪ z / ⓘ KAY-deez, -diz) [4] is a home rule-class city [5] and the county seat of Trigg County, Kentucky, United States. [6] The population was 2,540 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Clarksville metropolitan area. Cadiz is a historic town located close to Lake Barkley east of the Land Between the Lakes ...
Website. barrencounty.ky.gov. Barren County is a county located in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,485. [1] Its county seat is Glasgow. [2] The county was founded on December 20, 1798, [3] from parts of Warren and Green Counties.
The Rough River Lake is a Y-shaped reservoir located in Breckinridge, Hardin, and Grayson counties in Kentucky, United States, about 70 miles southwest of Louisville. [1] This lake was created by the building of a dam, begun in 1955 and completed in 1961, 89.3 miles (143.7 km) above the connection between the Rough River and the Green River .