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Kentucky Route 201
Kentucky Route 201 (KY 201) is a State highway (US), state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The highway connects mostly rural areas of Johnson County, Kentucky, Johnson and Lawrence County, Kentucky, Lawrence counties with Blaine, Kentucky, Blaine. Route description Johnson County KY 201 begins at an Intersection (road), intersection with U.S. Route 23 in Kentucky, U.S. Route 23 (US 23) north of Paintsville, Kentucky, Paintsville, within Johnson County, Kentucky, Johnson County. It travels to the northwest and curves to a northerly direction. It begins paralleling Goose Fork and has three crossings of the Fork before It intersects Kentucky Route 1559, KY 1559. The two highway begin a Concurrency (road), concurrency at this point. They curve to the south-southwest and enter Sitka, Kentucky, Sitka. There, they curve to the west and pass a United States Postal Service, U.S. Post Office before they split. KY 201 crosses over Toms Creek (Kentuck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paintsville, Kentucky
Paintsville () is a home 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 2010 U.S. Census. History A Paint Lick Station was referred to in military dispatches as early as 1780. The site was named for Indian art painted on the debarked trees near a local salt lick when the first white settlers arrived and was originally part of a tract belonging to George Lewis. The trading post was purchased by the Carolinian Rev.Henery Dixon in 1812 and laid out as the town of Paint Lick Station in 1826.Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names''p. 225 University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Retrieved September 25, 2013. The town was formally established under that name in 1834, although the post office was probably named Paint Creek. It was incorporated as a city under its present name of Paintsville in 1843, the same year it became the seat of Johnson County. The Civil War found J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
