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Montgomery County: Medicinal springs located within the county 12,975: 279 sq mi (723 km 2) Bell County: 013: Pineville: 1867: Harlan County and Knox County: Joshua Fry Bell, Kentucky legislator (1862–67) 23,317: 361 sq mi (935 km 2) Boone County: 015: Burlington: 1798: Campbell County: Daniel Boone (1734–1820), frontiersman: 140,496: 246 ...
The 1790 United States census was the first United States census. It recorded the population of the whole United States as of Census Day, August 2, 1790, as mandated by Article 1, Section 2, of the Constitution and applicable laws. In the first census, the population of the United States was enumerated to be 3,929,214 inhabitants. [1] [2]
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Powell County is a county located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,129. [1] Its county seat is Stanton. [2] The county was formed January 7, 1852, by Kentucky Governor Lazarus W. Powell from parts of Clark, Estill, and Montgomery counties. [3] It is no longer a dry county as of 2018.
Before 1750, Kentucky was populated nearly exclusively by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and several other tribes of Native Americans [1] See also Pre-Columbian; April 13, 1750 • While leading an expedition for the Loyal Land Company in what is now southeastern Kentucky, Dr. Thomas Walker was the first recorded American of European descent to discover and use coal in Kentucky; [2]
Marion County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the total population was 19,581. [1] Its county seat is Lebanon. [2] The county was founded in 1834 and named for Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War hero known as the "Swamp Fox".
Mercer County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,772. [1] Its county seat is Harrodsburg. [2] The county was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1785 [3] and is named for Revolutionary War General Hugh Mercer, who was killed at the Battle of Princeton in ...
Clark County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,972. [1] Its county seat is Winchester. [2] The county was created in 1792 from Bourbon and Fayette counties and is named for Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark. [3] [4] Clark County is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY ...