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The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet’s Division of Water officials recommended that homes and businesses in the floodplain of Panbowl Lake in Jackson be evacuated. Records indicate there ...
At least 1,000 people in the state were rescued from the floodwaters Sunday, according to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. The governor said in a news conference that he believed the death toll in the ...
Beshear said rain broke daily rainfall records in the Kentucky cities of Frankford, Paducah, Bowling Green, London and Jackson. The city of Hazard in Perry County, Kentucky, has seen its worst ...
Late on July 28 and into July 29, part of the city of Jackson was evacuated and KY 15 was closed after officials became concerned that water from the North Fork River would top Panbowl Dam along KY 15 and potentially flood approximately 110 homes, 13 businesses, and other structures around Panbowl Lake, although the river began receding before ...
North Fork Kentucky River gauge at Jackson, Kentucky. Water crested at 37.1 feet. Areas impacted included Kentucky, and parts of Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. At least 14 [13] [14] [7] [8] people were killed in Kentucky. [15] [16] [17] In Kentucky and West Virginia, governors Andy Beshear and Patrick Morrisey declared states of emergency.
Jackson is located at (37.553012, −83.38824 The city is nestled in the heart of the Cumberland Plateau of the Appalachian Mountains, with the downtown located on the north bank of the North Fork of the Kentucky River.
The population of Jackson is about 2,000 and the county population was 13,718 in the 2020 Census, but the Kentucky State Data Center has projected that the county will lose more than 16% of its ...
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