Kentucky counties

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Map of Kentucky's counties

This is a list of the one hundred and twenty counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, third in the U.S. behind Texas's 254 and Georgia's 159.[1] The original motivation for having so many counties was to ensure that residents in the days of poor roads and horseback travel could make a round trip from their home to the county seat and back in a single day, as well as being able to travel from one county seat to the next in the same fashion.[2] Later, however, politics began to play a part, with citizens who disagreed with the present county government simply petitioning the state to create a new county. The 1891 Kentucky Constitution placed stricter limits on county creation, effectively ending the practice.

[edit] County website evaluations

Main article: Evaluation of Kentucky county websites
  • Only 12 of the 120 counties posts its county budget online.
  • 23 counties include information on their websites about public government meetings.
  • 73 include information about the county's elected officials.
  • 58 include information about the county's administrative officials.
  • 13 counties give information about permits and zoning in the county.
  • 7 of the counties put information on their websites about audits that the county government has had performed.
  • Only 1 county gives information about its contracts with county vendors.
  • 0 county websites disclose whether or not they belong to any taxpayer-funded lobbying associations.
  • 2 counties provide information on how to request public records using the Kentucky Open Records Act.
  • 14 county websites provide some information about county taxes.

[edit] Counties without websites

As of mid September 2009, 15 of Kentucky's 120 counties had no website.

[edit] Comparison chart of counties

Below is a listing of the counties

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[edit] References

  1. ↑ How Many Counties are in Your State?. Click and Learn. Retrieved on 2006-11-29.
  2. ↑ (1992) "Counties", in Kleber, John E.: The Kentucky Encyclopedia, Associate editors: Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813117720. 

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