2000 Population:
13,495 County Seat: McKee
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History from
Collins' History of Kentucky, 1877
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Jackson county was the 105th erected
in the state, in 1858, out of portions of Madison, Estill, Owsley,
Clay, Laurel, and Rockcastle; named after Gen. Andrew Jackson. It
is ont he border of the eastern middle portion of the state; is bounded
N and NE by Estill and Lee counties, E by Owsley, SE by Clay, S by Laurel,
W by Rockcastle, and NW by Madison county; and is watered by tributaties
of both Cumberland and Kentucky rivers - Laurel fork, Middle fork, Indian,
Moore's, Pond, Horse Lick, Sturgeon, War fork and South fork of Station
Camp creeks. On the head waters of several creeks are bodies of comparatively
level land, but in the county generally the land is hilly and broken; the
soil is thin, usually clay, sometimes sandy - freestone, except on the
waters of Horse Lick and South fork, where it is limestone. Iron and other
minerals abound. There are vast bodies of coal and timber; of the latter
but little has been taken off. Corn is the principal production. |
