Kentucky Regions Kentucky Symbols Kentucky Facts Famous People of KY Miscellaneous
This region is very mountainous and produces 50% Kentucky's Coal from deep mining.
What is the Eastern Coal Field ?
This region is bordered by the Mississippi, Tennessee, and Ohio Rivers which cause low, marshy areas.
What is the Jackson Purchase?
This region has rich soil for farming and was named after a small mint plant that grows there.
What is the Pennyroyal?
This region uses strip mining to produce 50% of Kentucky’s coal.
What is the Western Coal Fields
This region is the most populated region, famous for its race horses, and contains limestone.
What is the Bluegrass?
The state bird of Kentucky is this.
What is the cardinal?
The state flower of Kentucky is this.
What is the goldenrod?
The state song of Kentucky is this.
What is “My Old Kentucky Home”?
The state motto of Kentucky is this.
What is “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”?
The state tree is this.
What is the Yellow Tulip Poplar?
Kentucky became the 15 th state to enter the Union in this year.
What is 1792?
Our state of Kentucky gets most of our coal from this region.
What is the Western Coal Field?
This point is 4,150 feet above sea level and the highest point in Kentucky.
What is Black Mountain?
The Kentucky Derby has been held here in Louisville every year since 1875.
What is Churchill Downs?
This was the first permanent settlement in Kentucky.
What is Harrodsburg?
He lead settlers through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky.
Who is Daniel Boone?
He wrote Kentucky’s state song, “My Old Kentucky Home.”
Who is Stephen Foster?
The head of our state government who has duties and responsibilities most similar to the President of the U.S.
Who is our governor?
He was born in Kentucky and was President of the Union during the Civil War (1861 to 1865).
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
She was the first lady elected Governor of Kentucky.
Who is Martha Lane Collins?
The capital of Kentucky, where our state government is located.
What is Frankfort?
Our state has been divided into this many counties.
What is 120?
Kentucky’s official name is this.
What is the Commonwealth of Kentucky?
This is Kentucky’s most important mineral.
What is coal?
These two men are on our state seal clasping hands.
Who are a pioneer and a statesman?