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The Leonard mining town, and Leonard railway station, were just downstream of the mouth of Lower Second Creek, 8 miles (13 km) from Hazard by rail. [12] The Butterfly post office was established on 1920-05-04 by postmaster Ollie Clay Day, who was the mining company's bookkeeper. [12]
For example, the Louisville Gas & Electric Co. (LG&E) and the Kentucky Utilities Co. (KU) operated a coal-based power plant since 1954 known as Cane Run 7. In 2015, they turned the facility into a "natural gas combined generating station". [25] It is the first of its type in the state of Kentucky.
The collapse of a coal mining plant in Eastern Kentucky Tuesday has left one worker dead. ... at the Western Kentucky Coal Company’s No. 7 mine in Webster County killed 62 of the 153 men ...
The Holliday post office was the earliest one established in the Lotts Creek area. [5] It was established on 1901-10-04 by postmaster Sherman B. Holliday, and located (according to its application form) 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Hazard and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of Dwarf post office (on Troublesome Creek), which places it at the mouth of a tributary of Trace Fork that was known as Godsey Fork.
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Brown’s death was one of two fatal coal-mining accidents in Kentucky in 2022. In the other, 32-year-old Cecil Collett, of Pennington Gap. Va., died when a large tree at a surface mine in Bell ...
Troublesome Creek in Hindman, Kentucky. Troublesome Creek is a creek in Breathitt, Perry and Knott counties, Kentucky, a fork of the North Fork Kentucky River. [1] It is 41.46 miles (66.72 km) long with a gradient of 8.92 feet per mile (168.9 cm/km), normally free-flowing, and with banks that vary between tree-lined and open.
From 2012 to 2014, "Appalachian" Kentucky—which includes all of the Eastern Coalfield and several counties in South Central Kentucky and a few in the eastern part of the Bluegrass region—had a three-year average unemployment rate of 9.8%, compared with 7.6% statewide and 7.2% nationwide. [14]