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    Houston Acres is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 507 at the 2010 census. Houston Acres is located...
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    58,000-acre (230 km2) reservoir in Livingston County, Lyon County and Trigg County in Kentucky and extending into Stewart County and Houston County in...
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    Hurstbourne Acres is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,811 at the 2010 census, up from 1,504 at...
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    area of over 250,000 acres (100,000 ha). It is also the third longest beltway overall in the United States; only the Sam Houston Tollway and the Grand...
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    damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in the Houston metropolitan area and Southeast Texas; this made the storm the costliest...
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    total passenger traffic as of 2022 IAH covers 10,000 acres (40 km2) of land and has five runways. Houston Intercontinental is one of the largest passenger...
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    covers 84 acres (34 ha), with 18 acres (7.3 ha) still undeveloped as of 2018. According to architectural historian Stephen Fox, many of Houston's earlier...
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    Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. The two largest, Louisville and Lexington, are designated "first class" cities. A first...
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    Hickory Hill Highview † Hills and Dales Hollow Creek Hollyvilla Houston Acres Hurstbourne Acres Hurstbourne Indian Hills Jeffersontown Keeneland Kingsley Langdon...
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    at the time of the airport's opening, Covington, Kentucky. The airport covers an area of 7,700 acres (3,100 ha). It is included in the Federal Aviation...
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    second (30,000 m3/s). Kentucky Lake's 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline, 160,300 acres (64,900 ha) of water surface, and 4,008,000 acre-feet (4,944 Gl) of...
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    Kentucky Kingdom, formerly known as Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, is an amusement park in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The 67-acre (27 ha) park includes...
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  • Massachusetts 26. Detroit, Michigan 27. Portland, Oregon 28. Louisville, Kentucky 29. Memphis, Tennessee 30. Baltimore, Maryland 31. Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
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    Hills and Dales* Hillview Hollow Creek* Hollyvilla* Houston Acres* Hunters Hollow Hurstbourne Acres* Hurstbourne* Indian Hills* Kingsley* La Grange Laconia...
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    New York Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival — Nappanee, Indiana Ann Arbor Art Fairs — Ann Arbor, Michigan Bayou City Art Festival — Houston, Texas Catoctin...
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    Daniel Boone - American frontiersman and explorer of Kentucky. Kit Carson - Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868), better known...
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    Veech's Indian Hill Stock Farm, for a time one of Kentucky's largest horse farms. Veech held over 300 acres (120 ha) as early as 1805, and his family continued...
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    600 acres (2.4 km2). It was the first such development in the United States. Today, Bluegrass Commerce Park has expanded to more than 1,800 acres (7.3 km2)...
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    southwestern counties of Gibson, Perry, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick Kentucky Counties to the east of (not including) the counties of Breckinridge, Grayson...
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    Mordecai Lincoln (category People from Louisville, Kentucky)
    the 400 acres for £400. Four months later, he purchased 300 acres in Springfield, Kentucky for £100 from Terah Templin. Templin was Kentucky's first ordained...
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  • John M. Shelton (category People from Kentucky)
    of 28,000 head of cattle and 500,000 acres in the Texas Panhandle. John M. Shelton was born in 1853 in Kentucky. He took a wagon train to Fort Worth,...
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  • Kentucky State University (KSU, and KYSU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Frankfort, Kentucky. Founded in 1886 as the State Normal...
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    Hickory Hill Hills and Dales Hollow Creek Hollyvilla Houston Acres Hurstbourne Hurstbourne Acres Indian Hills Jeffersontown Kingsley Langdon Place Lincolnshire...
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  • Houston Christian University (HCU), formerly Houston Baptist University (HBU), is a private Baptist university in Houston, Texas. It is affiliated with...
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    Paris is a home rule-class city in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and the county seat. It lies 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Lexington on the Stoner Fork of...
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  • the CVG sort facility, encompassing 440 acres (180 ha) was completed in 2020, while the remaining 479 acres (194 ha) will be developed by 2025–2027 during...
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    the south by Houston Acres, to the west by Louisville, and to the southwest and east by consolidated Louisville/Jefferson County. Kentucky Route 155 (Taylorsville...
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    Sam Houston was a slaveholder who had a complicated history with the institution of slavery. He was the president of the independent Republic of Texas...
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    Lincoln announced a plan to auction 60,000 acres of South Carolina land in lots of 320 acres—setting aside 16,000 acres of the land for "heads of families of...
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    Daniel Boone National Forest (category National Forests of Kentucky)
    national forest in Kentucky. Established in 1937, it includes 708,000 acres (287,000 ha) of federally owned land within a 2,100,000-acre (850,000 ha) proclamation...
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