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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.

Lewis County, Kentucky

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

County Seat: Vanceburg
Year Organized: 1807
Square Miles: 484

Court House:

514 2nd Street
County Courthouse
Vanceburg, KY 41179-1089

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809), explorer; territorial governor of Louisiana.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Lewis county was formed in 1807. It is located in the Outer Bluegrass and Eastern Coal Field regions of the state. The elevation in the county ranges from 485 to 1400 feet above sea level. In 2000 the county population was 14,092 in a land area of 484.49 square miles, an average of 29.1 people per square mile. The county seat is Vanceburg.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Adams County, Ohio
Northeast: Scioto County, Ohio
East: Greenup County
Southeast: Carter County
South: Rowan County
Southwest: Fleming County
West: Mason County

Cities and Towns:

- Concord	city	Incorporated Area
- Vanceburg (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."