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Kentucky Counties - Alphabetical Table Gives county seat, parent county, the dates of any disasters and whether county records were destroyed, and links to the county web sites.
Essay - The Landscape of the New Republic: Kentucky County Names Origins of the names of early Kentucky counties. Author: Benjamin H. Irvin
1990 Census Tract Maps for Kentucky Counties These show census tract boundaries and major highways.
Center for Rural Development Promoting business in Eastern and Southern Kentucky counties.
Formation of Kentucky Counties A brief essay explaining the basics of county origination.
Kentucky County History Summaries by county of formation history and disasters that destroyed records.
Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer - County General Highway Maps The following maps, covering about three fourths of Kentucky's counties, are available. The dates of the maps range from 1990 to 1998 and are indicated. The files are GIF images ranging in size from about 256 kilobytes up to a little more than a megabyte. The names of virtually all of the places and roads marked on the maps are indexed in the Gazetteer.
Kentucky County Caves Fact Sheet Lists the number of known caves for each Kentucky county.

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