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GNIS feature ID. 0493746. Harlan is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. [ 3] The population was 1,745 at the 2010 census, [ 4] down from 2,081 at the 2000 census. Harlan is one of three Kentucky county seats to share its name with its county, the others being Greenup and Henderson .
Harlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,831. [ 1] Its county seat is Harlan. [ 2] It is classified as a moist county —one in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county ), but containing a "wet" city—in this case Cumberland, where package alcohol sales are allowed.
The Harlan County War, or Bloody Harlan, was a series of coal industry skirmishes, executions, bombings and strikes (both attempted and realized) that took place in Harlan County, Kentucky, during the 1930s. The incidents involved coal miners and union organizers on one side and coal firms and law enforcement officials on the other. [ 1]
Lynch Historic District. September 15, 2003. ( #03000086) Roughly bounded by the city limits, the L&N railroad bed, Big Looney Creek, and 2nd, Mountain, Highland Terrace, Liberty, and Church Sts. 36°57′52″N 82°55′04″W. / 36.964444°N 82.917778°W / 36.964444; -82.917778 ( Lynch Historic District) Lynch.
Progression. Cumberland — Ohio — Mississippi. The Clover Fork is a 30-mile (48 km) [3] tributary of the Cumberland River, draining a section of the Appalachian Mountains in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in the United States. The river's confluence with the Martin's Fork at Harlan marks the official beginning of the Cumberland River.
1917: No. 7 mine explosion in Webster County kills 62 men. On the morning of Aug. 4, 1917, a methane gas explosion at the Western Kentucky Coal Company’s No. 7 mine in Webster County killed 62 ...
Kingdom Come State Park is a part of Kentucky's state park system in Harlan County atop Pine Mountain near the city of Cumberland.It was named after the 1903 best-selling novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by native Kentuckian John Fox, Jr. Features of the park include Raven Rock, Log Rock, and a 3.5-acre (1.4 ha) mountain lake.
Lynch is located in eastern Harlan County at 36°57′54″N 82°55′00″W (36.965133, -82.916569), [4] in the valley of Looney Creek. Lynch is the nearest city to Kentucky's highest point, Black Mountain (4,145 ft or 1,263 m). Sitting at an elevation of 1,716 feet (523 m) above sea level.