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Floyd County, Kentucky

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37.5571

Longitude

-82.7457

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"Floyd County, Kentucky" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/P00000302, (accessed March 14, 2025).

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County in far eastern Kentucky. Seat at Prestonsburg.

Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 104.
“Floyd County,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 330-31.
USGS: Earth Explorer, “Floyd County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 27, 2020).

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