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Caldwell County. 033. Princeton. 1809. Livingston County. John Caldwell, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1804) 12,551. 347 sq mi (899 km 2) Calloway County.
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 ...
Kentucky was a heavily divided slave state during the American Civil War. Though the state had dueling Union and Confederate state governments, Kentucky was never an official component of the Confederacy. Kentucky was one of the Southern border states during the war, and it remained neutral within the Union. [39]
Kentucky Bend. The Kentucky Bend, variously called the New Madrid Bend, Madrid Bend, Bessie Bend, or Bubbleland, [1][2] is an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky, encircled by the states of Tennessee and Missouri. It is a portion of a peninsula defined by an oxbow loop meander of the Mississippi River, and its inclusion in the state of Kentucky ...
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" (K entuck y, O hio, and West V irgini a), the region spans seven counties in the three states of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. [3]
Category. : Borders of Kentucky. Articles specifically about the borders of U.S. states, not simply about natural features that form the borders, unless there is detailed discussion about the border.
Letcher County is located in the far southeast of Kentucky. Most of its border is defined by mountains. The 125-mile long Pine Mountain divides the county, and defines part of the county's border with Harlan County and Virginia. To the south, Black Mountain marks its border with Virginia. [19] [20]
The Purchase comprised what is now eight counties, with a combined land area of 3,394.8 square miles (6,202.5 km 2), about 6.03% of Kentucky's land area.Its 2010 census population was 196,365 inhabitants, equal to 4.53% of the state's population.