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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.

Bell County, Kentucky

Bell County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Pineville
Year Organized: 1867
Square Miles: 361

Court House:

P.O. Box 366
County Courthouse
Pineville, KY 40977-0366

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Joshua Fry Bell (1811-1870), Danville lawyer, congressman, and Kentucky legislator.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County 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:

- Middlesborough	city	Incorporated Area
- Pineville (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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."