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The Ohio Valley is a sub region in Kentucky running 658 miles (1,059 km) long including parts of 25 counties and across five regions of the state. Over 45% of Kentucky's population live in counties that border the Ohio River , although those counties are only 16% of the state's land area.
Ohio County was formed in 1798 from land taken from Hardin County. [3] Ohio was the 35th Kentucky county in order of formation. [4] It was named for the Ohio River, which originally formed its northern boundary, but it lost its northern portions in 1829, when Daviess County and Hancock County were formed.
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]
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Martin Van Buren Bates (November 9, 1837 – January 19, 1919), known as the Kentucky Giant, was an American man notable for his great height. He was 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) tall [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and weighed 475 lb (215 kg).
Beaver Dam is a home rule-class city [3] in Ohio County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 3,409 at the 2010 census , and it is the most populous community in the county. It is named for the Beaver Dam Baptist Church which predates the town by several decades. [ 4 ]
ZIP code(s) 40204, 40205, 40217. Area code(s) 502: ... Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collections Archived 2010-08-01 at the Wayback Machine
Horse Branch is an unincorporated community in Ohio County, Kentucky, United States. [1] The community is located on U.S. Route 62 11.5 miles (18.5 km) east-northeast of Beaver Dam. Horse Branch has a post office. [2] Its ZIP code is 42349. [3] [4]