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Because today's largest county by area, Pike County, is 788 square miles (2,041 km 2), it is only still possible to form a new county from portions of more than one existing county; McCreary County was formed in this manner, from parts of Wayne, Pulaski and Whitley counties. Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776.
Kentucky is the only U.S. state to have a continuous border of rivers running along three of its sides – the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork to the east. [30] Its major internal rivers include the Kentucky River, Tennessee River, Cumberland River, Green River and Licking River.
At the county lines and geophysical subregion boundaries are two significant obstacles, the Barren River at the Allen-Warren county line and a cuesta called The Knobs at the Warren-Edmonson county line. [5] [6] KY 101 is part of the state primary system from the western junction with US 31W north to its northern terminus. The remainder of KY ...
Kentucky County, Virginia, 1777–1780; District of Kentucky (Fayette, Jefferson, Lincoln, and successor counties), 1780–1792; Commonwealth of Kentucky becomes 15th State admitted to the United States of America on June 1, 1792 Abraham Lincoln born in 1809 in Kentucky; Henry Clay, politician 1800–1850; War of 1812, June 18, 1812 – March ...
US 79 in Kentucky begins at the Tennessee state line west of Guthrie and travels northeast, forming a junction with US 41 0.497 miles (0.800 km) from the state line. The route continues to the northeast, passing north of Guthrie and Allensville in rural areas of Todd County. 10.606 miles (17.069 km) from the Kentucky-Tennessee border, US 79 crosses into Logan County where it becomes known as ...
Southern terminus of KY 1156 73.458: 118.219: KY 2878 north: Southern terminus of KY 2878: Blue Grass: 76.374: 122.912: KY 627 north / KY 3055 south (White Hall Shrine Road) – Winchester, White Hall State Historic Site: Southern terminus of KY 627; northern terminus of KY 3055 78.797: 126.811: KY 2328 north (Lexington Road) Southern terminus ...
Clay County had the highest poverty level among the 10 poorest counties at 35.9%, the Census Bureau reports, compared to Kentucky’s statewide poverty level of 16.5%. Wolfe County had the lowest ...
The remainders of KY 21, KY 169, and KY 257 still retained their original alignments off the current US 421. KY 50 no longer exists in the state route system. KY 66 is now assigned to a road in Bell , western Leslie and eastern Clay Counties in southeast Kentucky from Middlesboro to US 421/KY 80 near Big Creek