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People work to clear a house from a bridge on KY-931 near the Whitesburg Recycling Center in Letcher County, Ky., on Friday, July 29, 2022. See photos of Eastern Kentucky before and after deadly ...
The community center is located at 7199 KY-80, Langley, KY 41645. The post shared a number those stranded and in need of rescue can call: 606-886-1010. This story will be updated.
Major flooding inundated Southeast Kentucky from February 6–7, 2020, as the result of an extremely heavy rain event. [1]Twenty one counties in Eastern Kentucky sustained flood damage, and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency on February 8, for Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher, Perry and Whitley Counties.
Pineville is located in northern Bell County at (36.7620301, −83.6949176), [10] along the Cumberland River, directly north of its water gap through Pine Mountain U.S. Route 25E passes through the city, intersecting Kentucky Route 66 in downtown.
In 1977, KYTC finalized designs of a 2.2-mile-long (3.5 km) four-lane bypass for US 25E paralleling the Cumberland River in Pineville, supported by a floodwall. [70] By this time, US 25E in Kentucky had been widened to four lanes in several sections; Corbin to west Barbourville and south to Middlesboro. [ 71 ]
Death toll rises to 16, Beshear says. 10:30 a.m. — In his latest press conference on Friday, Gov. Andy Beshear said 16 people have been killed by the devastating floods in eastern Kentucky. 11 ...
Bell County is a county located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,097. [2] Its county seat is Pineville and its largest city is Middlesboro. [3]
Troublesome Creek, and the streams that feed into it, saw nearly half of the total victims of historic flooding across Eastern Ky. Many were left to wonder why this creek, of all the Appalachian ...