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    Letcher County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,548. Its county seat is Whitesburg. It was...
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  • Letcher may refer to: Letcher, South Dakota Letcher County, Kentucky Chris Letcher, South African singer/songwriter Cliff Letcher (born 1952), Australian...
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    Killing of Kevin Mullins (category Letcher County, Kentucky)
    On September 19, 2024, Letcher County, Kentucky, District Judge Kevin R. Mullins was shot and killed. Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines was arrested...
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    Whitesburg, Kentucky (category Cities in Letcher County, Kentucky)
    Whitesburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The population was at the 2020 census and an estimated...
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  • Lee County High School, Beattyville Leslie County High School, Hyden Jenkins Middle/High School, Jenkins (Jenkins Independent Schools) Letcher County Central...
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  • Letcher County Public Schools Logan County Schools Russellville Independent Schools Berea Independent Schools Madison County Schools McCracken County...
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    Fleming-Neon, Kentucky (category Cities in Letcher County, Kentucky)
    Fleming-Neon also known as Neon, is a home rule-class city in Letcher County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 770 at the 2010 census...
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    parents survived despite being stranded in a tree for eight hours. In Letcher County, Whitesburg, and surrounding communities were severely impacted by the...
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    Robert Perkins Letcher (February 10, 1788 – January 24, 1861) was a politician and lawyer from the US state of Kentucky. He served as a U.S. Representative...
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    Jenkins, Kentucky (category Cities in Letcher County, Kentucky)
    Jenkins is a home rule-class city in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,203 as of the 2010 census. In autumn of 1911, the Consolidation...
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    Blackey, Kentucky (category Cities in Letcher County, Kentucky)
    Blackey is an unincorporated community in Letcher County, Kentucky, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 120. It is located...
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    population the county was reduced in size when Letcher County was formed in 1842, using a part of its territory. It was further reduced when Bell County was formed...
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  • Missouri, a village in Pike County, Missouri, United States Eolia, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States Leo...
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  • Letcher County Central High School (LCCHS) is a public high school containing grades 9–12 in the southeastern city Ermine of Letcher County, Kentucky...
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    000 people in five counties: Floyd County, Martin County, Letcher County, and neighboring Mingo County, West Virginia. Pike County contains slightly more...
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  • Anita Cherry (category People from Letcher County, Kentucky)
    Anita Cherry was an American practical nurse and coal miner. She and Diana Baldwin, hired as miners in 1973, are believed to have been the first women...
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  • Appalshop (category Buildings and structures in Letcher County, Kentucky)
    increasing arts and technology training. The money also helped to diversify Letcher County's economy. A total of $275,000 in grants was awarded to the Southeast...
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    American author, historian, lawyer, legislator, and environmentalist from Letcher County, in the coalfields of southeastern Kentucky. Caudill served in World...
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    There are 120 counties in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, fourth among states (including...
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    election in which Boyd County, Muhlenberg County, Harlan County, Perry County, Letcher County, Ballard County, and Fulton County have voted for the Democratic...
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    Martin Van Buren Bates (category People from Letcher County, Kentucky)
    his autobiography: While in Ohio, I purchased a farm in Seville, Medina County. It consisted of 130 acres [0.53 km2; 53 ha] of good land. I built a house...
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  • Fleming-Neon Letcher Elementary School (K-8th), Letcher Martha Jane Potter Elementary School (K-8th), Kona Whitesburg Middle School, Whitesburg Lewis County Schools...
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  • Defeated Creek is a stream in Letcher County, Kentucky, in the United States. According to tradition, Defeated Creek was so named when pioneer hunters...
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    McRoberts, Kentucky (category Census-designated places in Letcher County, Kentucky)
    is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 741 at the 2020 United...
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  • Diana Baldwin (category People from Letcher County, Kentucky)
    inside a mine. Baldwin was born on August 31, 1948, to Lelar Baldwin, in Letcher County, Kentucky. She first worked as a waitress, then as receptionist at a...
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    Alice Lloyd College. Knott County was established in 1884 from land given by Breathitt, Floyd, Letcher, and Perry counties. The 1890s-era courthouse,...
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  • The Mountain Eagle (newspaper) (category Letcher County, Kentucky)
    newspaper published in Whitesburg, Kentucky. It is the main newspaper of Letcher County, Kentucky and one of the primary newspapers of the Eastern Kentucky...
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    John Letcher (March 29, 1813 – January 26, 1884) was an American lawyer, journalist, and politician. He served as a Representative in the United States...
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  • prospering areas in America, O'Connor chose to document Letcher County in eastern Kentucky. Letcher County is in Appalachia, a 2,000,000-square-mile (5,200,000 km2)...
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  • Roscoe Vanover (category People from Wise County, Virginia)
    1863–September 18, 1927) was a United States circuit court judge for Pike and Letcher counties in Kentucky. Roscoe (he did not use his given first name of Paris)...
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