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Boyd County Kentucky
   County Seat: Catlettsburg
   2000 Population: 49,752
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History from Collins' History of Kentucky, 1877
Boyd county, the 107th in order of formation, was organized in 1860, out of parts of Greenup, Carter and Lawrence counties, and named after Hon. Linn Boyd. It is the extreme NE county of the state, bounded N by the Ohio river, E by the Big Sandy river, S by Lawrence, and W by Carter and Greenup.