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    Johnson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,680. Its county seat is Paintsville. The...
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    pronounced as Butcher Holler) is a coal-mining community located in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. The town is the birthplace of country singer Loretta...
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    rule-class city along Paint Creek in Johnson County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 3,459 during the...
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  • Staffordsville is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. The community was originally named Frew and the first post office...
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    Magoffin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,637. Its county seat is Salyersville. The...
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    Van Lear is an unincorporated community and coal town in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. Incorporated in 1912, the town was named for a director...
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    Scott County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 57,155. Scott County is part...
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    Fayette County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky and is consolidated with the city of Lexington. As of the 2020 census...
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    Amendment. Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. He began and ended his political career in the Kentucky House...
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    is a 20.1-mile-long (32.3 km) tributary of the Levisa Fork in Johnson County, Kentucky. The stream is formed at the confluence of the Little Paint and...
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    Stuffley Knob is the tallest mountain in Johnson County, Kentucky, with a summit elevation of 1,496 feet (456 m) above sea level. The summit is located...
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  • The Johnson County School District is a public school district located in Johnson County, Kentucky. The district operates nine schools and has a total...
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  • Jenny Wiley (category People from Johnson County, Kentucky)
    now Little Mud Lick Creek, Johnson County, Kentucky. She escaped to Harman's Blockhouse in Floyd County (now Johnson County), aided in crossing a major...
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    Jefferson County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 782,969. It...
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  • West Van Lear is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. Even though it is unincorporated, it has a post office and its...
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    Johnson County was organized in 1812 out of Randolph County. It was named for Richard Mentor Johnson, who was then a U.S. Congressman from Kentucky....
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    promote the county's apple production, but to compete with the Johnson County Fair, which had been held annually since 1914. Eventually, the Kentucky Apple...
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    Boone County is a county located on the Ohio River in the northernmost part of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was...
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  • Johnson is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky, United States. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Johnson...
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    Owsley County is a county located in the Eastern Coalfield region of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,051, making...
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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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    Lawrence County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,293. Its county seat is Louisa. The county is...
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    Leslie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Its county seat and largest city is Hyden. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10...
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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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  • (historically spelled Flatgap) is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. The community was named after the "flat gap" formed...
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    children, Johnson was originally from Louisiana, but had settled in Kentucky's Louisville metropolitan area by the 1980s. Throughout his life, Johnson claimed...
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  • Peggy Sue (singer) (category People from Johnson County, Kentucky)
    Peggy Sue Wright was born Peggy Sue Webb in a cabin in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky on March 25, 1943. She is the second daughter and the sixth child born...
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    Chris Stapleton (category People from Johnson County, Kentucky)
    Staffordsville, Kentucky, which is located just outside of Paintsville, located between the city and the Paintsville Lake. He graduated from Johnson Central High...
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  • Oliver Lynn (category People from Johnson County, Kentucky)
    Of Irish descent, born in Butcher Hollow, near Paintsville, Kentucky in Johnson County, Oliver Lynn was an uneducated resident of a town based around...
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