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Kentucky Counties
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Kentucky Counties
Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, third in the U.S. behind
Texas's 254 and Georgia's 159. |
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Bell County, Kentucky
Bell County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Pineville
Year Organized: 1867
Square Miles: 361
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Court House: P.O. Box 366
County Courthouse
Pineville, KY 40977-0366
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Joshua Fry Bell (1811-1870), Danville lawyer, congressman, and
Kentucky legislator.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
Bell county was formed in 1867. It is located in the Eastern Coal Field region of the state. The elevation in the
county ranges from 975 to 3500 feet above sea level. In 2000 the county population was 30,060 in a land area of 360.77
square miles, an average of 83.3 people per square mile. The county seat is Pineville. The Cumberland Gap is in Bell
county, just south of Middlesborough, on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee.
Neighboring Counties:
- North: Clay County
- Northeast: Leslie County; Harlan County
- East: Lee County, Va.
- South: Claiborne County, Tenn.
- West: Whitley County
- Northwest: Knox County
Cities and Towns:
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- Middlesborough |
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- Pineville
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County Resources:
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
act locally." |
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