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Counties included within the Appalachian Regional Commission's charter. The following list contains the 420 counties and eight independent cities that comprise the region of Appalachia as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission. The ARC was established by the United States federal government in 1965 to alleviate poverty in the ...
Pages in category "Counties of Appalachia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 417 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
ARC serves 423 counties and 8 independent cities that encompass roughly 205,000 square miles (530,000 km 2), with a population of more than 25 million people. The Appalachian Regional Commission has 14 members: the governors of the 13 Appalachian states and a federal co-chair, who is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. A ...
In the 1960s, 219 counties in the 13-state Appalachian Region were considered economically distressed. Now that list has been cut by more than half, to 82 counties, but these are "hard-core" pockets of poverty, seemingly impervious to all efforts at improving their lot. [108]
Appalachian Ohio is a bioregion and political unit in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio, characterized by the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and the Appalachian Plateau. The Appalachian Regional Commission defines the region as consisting of thirty-two counties. [ 1 ]
Counties crossed: Warren County → Sussex County → Passaic County. Sunfish Pond on the Appalachian trail in New Jersey. New Jersey has 72.2 miles (116.2 km) of the trail. [19] This makes the New Jersey section of the Appalachian Trail the second longest trail in the state, behind the Delaware and Raritan Canal Trail.
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Counties of Appalachia (390 C, 417 P) E. East Tennessee (65 C, 73 P) ... List of Appalachian Regional Commission counties; Lost Provinces; N. North Alabama; North ...