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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.
Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN MSA [2] County 2009 Pop 2000 Pop Change Jefferson County, Kentucky: 721,594 693,604 +4.04%: Clark County, Indiana: ...
Pike County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 Census, the population was 58,669. [1] Its county seat is Pikeville. [2] The county was founded in 1821. [3] It is a moist county—a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited but which contains a "wet" city.
County and city officials from bourbon-producing parts of the state spoke passionately against it, but legislators pulled the trigger on phasing out a tax many called anti-competitive.
On March 10, 2008, the City Commission voted to file a lawsuit against Knox County to receive a portion of the tax collected within city limits. [21] On May 23, 2014, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that the "Stivers amendment", passed as part of KY HB 499 "Tax Amnesty" legislation in 2012, did not violate the state's constitution.
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Laurel County, the 80th county to be organized in Kentucky, was established by an act of the general assembly, December 21, 1825, from parts of Rockcastle, Clay, Knox and Whitley Counties. [3] Laurel County was named from the Laurel River , noted for dense laurel thickets along its banks.
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