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Pike County, Kentucky

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Latitude

37.4842

Longitude

-82.4753

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"Pike County, Kentucky" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/P00012218, (accessed May 19, 2025).

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Easternmost county of Kentucky. Seat at Pikeville. Located on the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River.

Robert M. Rennick, "Pike County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 721.
Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 233.
USGS: Earth Explorer, "Pike County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on February 21, 2020).

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