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Russell County is a county located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,991. [1] Its county seat is Jamestown and its largest city is Russell Springs. [2] The county was formed on December 14, 1825, from portions of Adair, Cumberland and Wayne Counties and is named for William Russell. [3]
On April 27, 1971, a violent F4 tornado struck Gosser Ridge and other parts of Russell and Pulaski County, Kentucky. [1] [2] [3] In November 1999, the National Climatic Data Center published a list of the historical F5 tornadoes in the United States from 1880 to 1999, which rated the Gosser Ridge tornado as an F5 tornado. [4]
The Confederate Heartland Offensive (August 14 – October 10, 1862), also known as the Kentucky Campaign, was an American Civil War campaign conducted by the Confederate States Army in Tennessee and Kentucky where Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith tried to draw neutral Kentucky into the Confederacy by outflanking Union troops under Major General Don Carlos Buell.
The episode will focus on the events of Jan. 25, 1865, when 22 Civil War soldiers were ambushed by outlaws and killed, while 20 more were injured, during a cattle drive to Louisville.
PowerOutage.us, another online tracker, reported approximately 5,300 people are without power in Fayette County as of 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, and 15,343 across Kentucky. More than 30,000 statewide ...
It is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Russell County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1] There are 2 properties listed on the National Register in the ...
The community was established in 1826 to be the seat of the newly formed Russell County.It was briefly known as Jacksonville in honor of General Andrew Jackson, [9] who had just won a plurality of the popular vote during the 1824 presidential election but lost the runoff in the House of Representatives, largely because of the "corrupt bargain" struck by Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.
Kentucky State Police said Pulaski County 911 operators contacted them at 7 p.m. and asked for help finding a Ford F-150 driven by Angela Gosser, 56, of Russell Springs. Angela and Larry Gosser ...