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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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    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 2,139 at the 2010 census and...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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 Public Schools Logan County Schools Russellville Independent Schools Berea Independent Schools Madison County Schools McCracken County...
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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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    American author, historian, lawyer, legislator, and environmentalist from Letcher County, in the coalfields of southeastern Kentucky. Caudill served in World...
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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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    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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  • Appalshop (category Buildings and structures in Letcher County, Kentucky)
    increasing arts and technology training. The money also helped to diversify Letcher County's economy. These grants were awarded to the Southeast Kentucky High Tech...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Neon is an unincorporated community in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The Neon Post Office does exist. It was also known as Fleming-Neon. U.S...
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  • small Perry County, Kentucky coal camp of Hardburly. Others were done at the M.C. Napier High School gym in Hazard, Kentucky and in Letcher County near Carbon...
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    Gorge at the Tennessee-North Carolina state line and U.S. Route 23 in Letcher County, Kentucky. Large tunnels were built through mountain slopes at Cumberland...
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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 are believed to have been the first women to work in an underground...
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    Hoover Dawahare (category People from Letcher County, Kentucky)
    Herbert Hoover Dawahare (November 2, 1928 – March 16, 2004) was an American businessman and politician who served as a member of the Kentucky House of...
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  • The replica of Lynn's home in Butcher Hollow, built at Bottom Fork, Letcher County, Kentucky, was burned by arsonists. It was on the front porch of that...
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    George Washington and Jefferson National Forests (category Protected areas of Letcher County, Kentucky)
    in 23 separate counties, more than any other National Forest except Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri, which lies in 29 counties. Botetourt, Monroe...
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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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  • Carbon Glow, Kentucky (category Unincorporated communities in Letcher County, Kentucky)
    Carbon Glow is an unincorporated community located in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The community was named for the Carbon Glow Coal Co. U.S...
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