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County
Courthouse
Pike County
was founded on December 19, 1821.
The county was named for
General Zebulon Pike, the explorer who discovered Pikes Peak.
Between 1860 and 1891 the Hatfield-McCoy feud raged in Pike and
in bordering Mingo County, West Virginia.
Pike is Kentucky's
largest county in terms of land area.
Its county seat is
Pikeville.
[Source:
Wikipedia.org]
* Martin
County (north)
* Mingo County, West Virginia (east)
* Buchanan County, Virginia (southeast)
* Dickenson County, Virginia & Wise County, Virginia (south)
* Letcher County & Knott County
(southwest)
* Floyd County
(west)
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