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Whitley City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 968 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 1,170 in 2010. It is the county seat of McCreary County. [4] Whitley City is one of two unincorporated county seats in Kentucky (the other being Burlington in Boone ...
The Barren Fork Coal Camp and Mine Archeological District is a 210 acres (0.85 km 2) historic district near Whitley City, Kentucky which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is also designated 15MC808 and 15MC809. [1] It is presumably located near or on Barren Fork Rd., north of Whitley City.
Blue Heron, also known as Mine 18, is a former coal mining community or coal town on the banks of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States, that has been recreated and is maintained as an interpretive history area in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.
Whitley County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,712. [1] Its county seat is at Williamsburg, [2] though the largest city is Corbin, and the county's District Court (a trial court of limited jurisdiction) sits in both cities.
Hill Top is an unincorporated community in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States.Hill Top is located on Kentucky Route 92 near the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Whitley City.
During the 1880s-90s, a large portion of the land surrounding the Big South Fork was purchased by L.E. Bryant who began exploring the deposits of coal. In 1901, Byrant sent his associate, John Toomey, to lumber baron Justus S. Stearns in Michigan and convinced him to invest in the mineral rights of the Big South Fork area.
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.
In particular, Lexington would have been classified as a first-class (Class 1) city. Although basic city classification changed in 2015, the old classifications will remain relevant for some time. Because many provisions of state law applied only to cities of certain pre-2015 classes, House Bill 331 was explicitly written to address such issues.