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The land in the foreground is West Virginia, that on the left is Kentucky, while the background is Ohio. The Big Sandy River, called Sandy Creek as early as 1756, is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 29 miles (47 km) long, [7] in western West Virginia and northeastern Kentucky in the United States. The river forms part of the ...
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]
The boundaries between Kentucky and West Virginia and the three states to their north – Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois – is based on the historical northern bank of the Ohio River. [1] In 1763, Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War , whose North American theater was called the French and Indian War .
From there, it forms the border between West Virginia and Ohio, upstream of Wheeling, West Virginia. The Ohio River as seen from Fredonia, Indiana. The river follows a roughly southwest and then west-northwest course until Cincinnati, before bending to a west-southwest course for most of the remainder of its length.
Kentucky has more navigable miles of water than any other state in the union, other than Alaska. [29] Kentucky is the only U.S. state to have a continuous border of rivers running along three of its sides – the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork to the east. [30]
The Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area, centered around the confluence of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers. The Cincinnati tri-state area, which includes parts of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Kyova, a region named for Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia and home to Tri-State Airport.
The Tug Fork is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, 159 miles (256 km) long, [4] in southwestern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Kentucky in the United States. Via the Big Sandy and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River .
West Virginia border on the shore of the Tug Fork River near the KY-VA-WV tripoint 36°33′15″N 89°34′17″W / 36.55417°N 89.57139°W / 36.55417; -89 Missouri border on the Mississippi River at the Madrid Bar in the Kentucky Bend