| Bordering the Ohio River, Kentucky is a state east of | | | | drainage basin of the Mississippi which borders |
| the United States of America. Its full title is actually the | | | | western Kentucky. All the major rivers in Kentucky |
| Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is one of the four | | | | eventually flow either northward or northwestward to |
| states that bear the name commonwealth. Frankfort, | | | | the Ohio River, one of the major tributaries of the |
| which is found in the central part of Kentucky, is the | | | | Mississippi River. The Ohio joins the Mississippi at the |
| capital of the state. Lexington is its largest city and | | | | point where the state lines of Kentucky, Illinois, and |
| Louisville is the center of its largest metropolitan area. | | | | Missouri meet. Along the northern rim of Kentucky the |
| This is the center of the economy. History Kentucky | | | | state line follows the north bank of the Ohio River. The |
| has a rich history especially during the haunt of Daniel | | | | Lexington Plain section covers the northeastern portion |
| Boone and the other pioneers. Kentucky entered the | | | | of this region. In Kentucky it is usually called the |
| union as the 15th state on June 1,1792. Significantly, two | | | | Bluegrass Region, Bluegrass section, or simply the |
| Civil War leaders were born in Kentucky. The state | | | | Bluegrass. This section, comprising about one-fifth of |
| slowly recovered from the war and its people began | | | | the state, is primarily a gently rolling plain from 240 to |
| to develop the manufacturing sector of the state's | | | | 300 m (800 to 1,000 ft) above sea level. The Inner |
| economy that remains it's cornerstone today. The | | | | Bluegrass, the very fertile central area lying in Bourbon, |
| name Kentucky is derived from a Cherokee name for | | | | Fayette, Jessamine, and Wood ford counties, is the |
| the area south of the Ohio River. Its meaning is still | | | | most prosperous farming district in the state. It is |
| actually disputed but some historians believe it means | | | | encircled by relatively infertile hilly land, which in turn is |
| "meadowland". Kentucky's official nickname is the | | | | encircled by the Outer Bluegrass, which closely |
| Bluegrass State, which comes from the famed grown | | | | resembles the Inner Bluegrass. The Shawnee section, |
| bluegrass pastures in Kentucky. It also took into | | | | which in Kentucky is usually called the Western Coal |
| consideration the contribution bluegrass made for | | | | Field, lies in the northwest. Much of it is made up of |
| Kentucky's economy. Geography Kentucky includes | | | | level or rolling plains from 180 to 240 m (600 to 800 ft) |
| portions of three major natural regions, or | | | | above sea level, with wooded ridges and rocky cliffs |
| physiographic provinces, of the eastern United States: | | | | rising above the general level of the land, especially in |
| the Appalachian Plateaus, the Interior Low Plateau, and | | | | the east. Kentucky Real Estate If you look at all the |
| the Gulf Coastal Plain. Each of these three regions is | | | | benefits of the demography of the state of Kentucky, |
| part of a larger physiographic division. The Appalachian | | | | you cannot deny that a Kentucky real estate is |
| Plateaus are part of the Appalachian Region, or | | | | something that would benefit you. living in a Kentucky |
| Appalachian Highland. The Interior Low Plateau is part | | | | real estate is going to bring you closer to the state's |
| of the Interior Plains, and the Gulf Coastal Plain is part | | | | benefits and is sure to make you a part of its booming |
| of the Coastal Plain. Kentucky lies entirely within the | | | | economy and colorful history. |