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Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, fourth among states (including Virginia's independent cities). [1] The original motivation for having so many counties was to ensure that residents in the days of poor roads and horseback travel could make a round trip from their home to the county seat in a single day, as well as ...
A ^ All but two of Kentucky's county seats are cities. The exceptions are Whitley City (McCreary Co.) and Burlington . Two Kentucky counties have dual seats of government: the seats of Campbell Co. are Alexandria and Newport and the seats of Kenton Co. are Independence and Covington. [140]
Bobtown, also known as Joe Lick, is a rural hamlet outside Berea, Madison County, Kentucky, United States. [1] Founded around 1769, since the mid-19th century it has been a predominantly African-American community.
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...
The Mid-South is an informally-defined region of the United States in the Southern United States, usually thought to be anchored by the Memphis metropolitan area. Exact definitions vary widely and consist of at least West Tennessee , North Mississippi , Northeast Arkansas , Southern Missouri and Missouri Bootheel at a minimum. [ 2 ]
U.S. Route 431 (US 431) in Kentucky runs 86.93 miles (139.90 km) from the Tennessee state line south of Adairville to US 60 at Owensboro.It crosses the state in mainly west-central portions of the state, passing through or near towns such as Russellville, Lewisburg, Central City and Livermore.
USGS physiographic map of Kentucky showing the location of the Knobs. The Knobs Region or The Knobs is located in the US state of Kentucky. It is a narrow, arc-shaped region consisting of hundreds of isolated hills. The region wraps around the southern and eastern parts of the Bluegrass region in the north central to northeastern part of the state.
Scott County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census , the population was 57,155. [ 1 ] Scott County is part of the Lexington-Fayette , Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area .