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The Barren Fork Coal Camp and Mine Archeological District is a 210 acres (0.85 km 2) historic district near Whitley City, Kentucky which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is also designated 15MC808 and 15MC809. [1] It is presumably located near or on Barren Fork Rd., north of Whitley City.
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.
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The West Kentucky Coal Field, alternatively The North Pennyrile or simply Northwest Kentucky, comprises an area in the west-central and northwestern part of the state, bounded by the Dripping Springs Escarpment and the Pennyroyal Plateau and the Ohio River, but is part of the Illinois Basin that extends into Indiana and Illinois. [1]
Sandstone is the county's most abundant rock type, although limestone becomes more common toward the southern area of the county. Two mines for extracting iron ore have been attempted, at Airdrie on the banks of the Green River, and at Buckner Furnace south of Greenville, Kentucky. Both iron ore mines were extant in the late 19th century and ...
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The Sportsplex, a 66,000-square-foot recreation center built on a former surface mine in Knott County, has cracked, bowed walls and foundation problems that prompted the Kentucky Office of the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Ore Mines is an unincorporated community located in Bath County, Kentucky, ...