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The Red Cross said 79 people were killed — 52 in Breathitt County, 25 in Rowan County and two in Lewis County, according to the weather-service report. January — February 1957
Two houses down from the Lost Creek post office along Troublesome, Fugate knew a couple that had worked hard over the years to improve their home on KY-476. Now all that’s left of the structure ...
Cave Run Lake. Cave Run Lake, located south of Morehead, Kentucky, USA along Kentucky Route 801, is an 8,270-acre (33 km 2) reservoir built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The 148 feet (45 m), half-mile (800 m) dam (and outlet works) construction began in 1965 and was completed in 1973. Cave Run Lake is in the northern part of the Daniel ...
Rowan County is known as a swing county. It voted Republican in 2000, 2012, 2016, and 2020 and Democratic in 2004 and 2008, but in most of those elections the winning candidate won by small margins. This changed in 2016 when Republican Donald Trump won the county with nearly 59% of the vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton 's 37%, the largest margin ...
The Frasure Creek lawsuit was a legal action by environmental organizations Waterkeeper Alliance and Appalachian Voices against Frasure Creek Mining and International Coal Group (ICG) on grounds of falsifying pollution discharge in their reports. [ 1 ] This violated many key components of the Clean Water Act (CWA), which controls and regulates ...
High-water rescue crews pulled people from flooded homes and vehicles Wednesday in Kentucky, where waves of thunderstorms prompted flash flood warnings and watches. A search continued for two ...
Elkhorn Creek is an 99-mile-long (159 km) [5] stream running through several counties in central Kentucky in the United States. The stream drains an area of 499.5 square miles (1,294 km 2). [6] It derives its name from the shape, as seen on a map, of its main stem with its two primary forks. Wallace Dam on North Elkhorn Creek in Scott County.
The Daniel Boone National Forest (originally the Cumberland National Forest) is a national forest in Kentucky. Established in 1937, it includes 708,000 acres (287,000 ha) of federally owned land within a 2,100,000-acre (850,000 ha) proclamation boundary. The name of the forest was changed in 1966 in honor of the explorer Daniel Boone.