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General Burnside Island State Park is a park located just south of Somerset, Kentucky in Pulaski County. The park encompasses 430 acres (170 ha) in the middle of Lake Cumberland, making it Kentucky's only island park. The park is named for General Ambrose E. Burnside, a Union general during the Civil War who stationed his troops at the location ...
The Burnside Historic District, in Burnside, Kentucky, is a 2.7 acres (1.1 ha) historic district containing four contributing buildings which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] It includes Queen Anne architecture and is located around the intersection of Lakeshore Dr. and French Ave. in Burnside. [1]
The lake has become a major source of tourism and an economic engine for Southern Kentucky. As of September 2011 Lake Cumberland was approximately 43 feet (13 m) below its normal level due to leakage in the earthen part of the dam, but repairs were completed in 2009 and officials estimated that lake levels would be back to normal by 2014–2015.
Fort Boonesborough State Park: Richmond: 153 acres (0.62 km 2) General Burnside State Park: Pulaski County [3] 430 acres (1.7 km 2) Grayson Lake State Park: Carter County [3] Park: 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) Lake: 1,512 acres (6.1 km 2) Green River Lake State Park: Taylor County [3] Park: 1,331 acres (5.4 km 2) Lake: 8,200 acres (33 km 2) John ...
Burnside is a home rule-class city in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 611 at the 2010 census . In 2004, Burnside became the only town in Pulaski County or any adjoining county to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages in qualified establishments.
That year the hospital donated the site to Murray State University, to be used for research and training students. In 1984 the site's historic importance was recognized and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2004, the site became the 11th State Historical Site of Kentucky and entered the control of the Kentucky State ...
Tributaries of the Big South Fork, Army Corps of Engineers, 1977 The river draws water from a drainage basin of Carboniferous rock in the Cumberland Plateau. [6]: 21 Taken together, the Big South Fork and its tributaries drain between 1,123 square miles (2,910 km 2) [7]: 39 and 1,382 square miles (3,580 km 2), [6]: 28 of which about 17% is covered by the associated National Recreation Area.
Stone fortification and mounds at the Devil's Backbone rock formation. Devil's Backbone is a rock formation and peninsula formed by the flow of Fourteen Mile Creek into the Ohio River, and is currently situated in Charlestown State Park near Charlestown, Indiana, and across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky.