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Pikeville (/ ˈ p aɪ k v əl /) is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Pike County, Kentucky, United States. [5] The population of Pikeville was 7,754 as of the 2020 U.S. Census . Pikeville serves as a regional economic, educational and entertainment hub for the surrounding areas of eastern Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.
Pike County is the seventy-first Kentucky county in order of creation. Pike County was founded on December 19, 1821, from a portion of Floyd County. [7] The county was named for General Zebulon Pike, the explorer who discovered Pikes Peak, and who became a national hero and namesake after his death in the War of 1812. [8]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Because today's largest county by area, Pike County, is 788 square miles (2,041 km 2), it is only still possible to form a new county from portions of more than one existing county; McCreary County was formed in this manner, from parts of Wayne, Pulaski and Whitley counties. Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776.
Pikeville MRA. NRHP reference No. 84001913 [1] Added to NRHP. September 20, 1984. The College Street Historic District in Pikeville, Kentucky is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The listing included nine residences as contributing buildings adjacent to the University of Pikeville.
Curator. Angela Donner. Website. www.bigsandyheritage.com. The Big Sandy Heritage Center Museum is located in Pikeville, Kentucky. The museum was housed in the old Chesapeake and Ohio Depot until 2015, when it moved to the 4th floor of the Judicial Annex in downtown Pikeville. [1] The museum portrays the people, places, and events that makes ...
Below is a list of covered bridges in Kentucky. There are eleven surviving authentic covered bridgesin the U.S. stateof Kentucky, and they are all historic.[1] A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction. An authentic bridge is constructed using trussesrather than other methods such as stringers, a ...
The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...