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Pikeville, Kentucky

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37.4793

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-82.5188

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"Pikeville, Kentucky" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/P00013681, (accessed May 21, 2025).

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Seat of Pike County, Kentucky. Incorporated in 1848. Originally named Piketon.

Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 233.
USGS: Earth Explorer, "Pikeville, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on November 6, 2020).

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