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Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) is a U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command storage facility for conventional munitions and chemical weapons. The facility is located in east central Kentucky, southeast of the cities of Lexington and Richmond, Kentucky. The 14,494-acre (58.66 km 2) site, composed mainly of open fields and wooded areas, is used for ...
21-46027. Website. www.lexingtonky.gov. Lexington is a consolidated city coterminous with and the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, making it the second-most populous city in Kentucky (after Louisville), the 14th-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 60th-most ...
Kentucky is served by six major interstate highways (I-24, I-64, I-65, I-69, I-71, I-75), seven parkways, and six bypasses and spurs.The parkways were originally toll roads, but on November 22, 2006, Governor Ernie Fletcher ended the toll charges on the William H. Natcher Parkway and the Audubon Parkway, the last two parkways in Kentucky to charge tolls for access. [1]
Kentucky Utilities. KU logo. Kentucky Utilities (KU) is based in Lexington, Kentucky, and provides electricity to 77 counties in Kentucky. KU also serves five counties in Virginia under the name Old Dominion Power. [1] It is owned by LG&E and KU Energy, LLC, which, in turn, is owned by PPL Corporation.
The Kentucky River is a tributary of the Ohio River in Kentucky, United States. The 260-mile (420 km) river and its tributaries drain much of eastern and central Kentucky, passing through the Eastern Coalfield, the Cumberland Mountains, and the Bluegrass region. [2] Its watershed encompasses about 7,000 square miles (18,000 km 2), and it ...
The Kentucky Public Service Commission is the public utilities commission for the State of Kentucky.. The commission is a quasi-judicial regulatory tribunal. It regulates the intrastate rates and services of investor-owned electric, natural gas, telephone, water and sewage utilities, customer-owned electric and telephone cooperatives, water districts and associations, and certain aspects of ...
"The Rise and Fall of Mother's Southwestern Branch: A Socio-demographic Study of the Shaker Community at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky 1805-1910." Thesis. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky. 1996. Stein, Stephen J. Letters from a Young Shaker: William S. Byrd at Pleasant Hill (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, c1985, repr. 2004)
The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...