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The Eastern Kentucky Coalfield covers 31 counties with a combined land area of 13,370 sq mi (34,628 km 2), or about 33.1 percent of the state's land area.Its 2000 census population was 734,194 inhabitants, or about 18.2 percent of the state's population.
By 2001 8.36 billion tons of coal had been extracted from Kentucky, 5.78 billion tons coming from the Eastern Coalfield and 2.58 billion tons coming from the Western Coalfield. [6] As of 2004 around 13% of total coal reserves had been extracted from the Western Coalfield, although much of the remaining 87% of reserves were not reachable with ...
Eastern Kentucky Coalfield geography stubs (27 C) Pages in category "Eastern Kentucky Coalfield" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Eastern Kentucky was a starkly different place in the early 1960s. In 1960, 58.4% of the people in Appalachian Kentucky were economically poor under the federal measure, compared to 22.1% ...
Today, a herd of more than 11,000 rocky mountain elk thrives atop reclaimed coal mines in Eastern Kentucky, but that wasn’t the case just three decades ago. The herd's close cousins, the eastern ...
Proponents of the bill – its sponsor is from the Western Kentucky coalfields and has a powerful co-sponsor from Eastern Kentucky in Senate President Robert Stivers – say it is needed to ensure ...
The Eastern Mountain Coal Fields task force covers articles relating to the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field region of Kentucky. The 31 counties covered by the region ...
Eastern Kentucky Coalfield (3 C, 10 P) L. Logan Coalfield (8 P) N. National Coal Heritage Area (4 C, 10 P) New River Coalfield (6 P) P. Coal mining in Pennsylvania (2 ...