Boyd County

Kentucky





THIS IS THE NEW BOYD COUNTY LOCATION!
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"Where Coal Meets Iron"

 

United We Stand

Statehood - June 1, 1792, 15th state
State Abbreviation - KY or Ken
State motto - United We Stand, Divided We Fall
State song - My Old Kentucky Home by Stephen Collins Foster
Nickname - The Bluegrass State

 

  • Boyd County Link to State's County Formation
  • Fayette County was formed from Kentucky County, Virginia in 1780. At the time Fayette County was formed it was one of the original three counties covering the entire state of Kentucky, now divided into 120 counties.
  • Bourbon County was formed from Fayette County, Kentucky in 1786.
  • Mason County was formed from Bourbon County, Kentucky in 1789.
  • Greenup County was formed from Mason County in 1804.
  • Lawrence County was formed from sections of Greenup and Floyd Counties in 1822.
  • Carter County was formed from sections of Greenup and Lawrence Counties in 1838.
  • Boyd County was formed from sections of Greenup, Lawrence and Carter Counties in 1860.

Boyd County is located in the Eastern Coal Field region of the state. The elevation in the county ranges from 515 to 1140 feet above sea level. In 2000 the county population was 49,752 in a land area of 160 square miles, an average of 310.6 people per square mile. The county seat is Catlettsburg, located at the junction of the Ohio and Big Sandy rivers, where Kentucky meets Ohio and West Virginia.

About this Web Site

This site linked to the Kentucky GenWeb Project and the United States GenWeb Project. It is maintained by Mark Meinhart and hosted by Rootsweb. The Assistant Coordinators for Boyd County are Teresa Scott-Scoggins and Judy Nunley Rengel , and the Kentucky State Coordinator is Sherri Hall. The National Coordinator is Richard Harrison.

The degree of effectiveness and usefulness of this site to those who come here looking for information is dependent upon the support of our fellow genealogists. Much of the material found here has been submitted by users to be incorporated into the pages of the site. The coordinators welcome any and all submissions of transcriptions, photographs, obituaries, news clippings, bible records, or any other bits of data that might be helpful or interesting to Boyd County researchers, and will try to incorporate them into an organized presentation. They ask only that the data be specific to Boyd County.

If you would like to submit something for use on the site, contact Teresa Scott-Scoggins 

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What's New on the KYBOYD Webpage

What's For June, 2008

Added a few Surnames to the Surname List

Added links to 6 more Sanborn Maps of Ashland from 1886, 1890, 1895, 1901, 1912, 1912 from the Kentuckiana Digital Library (Under History)

Added a link from the Kentuckiana Digital Library for Ashland, Kentucky Pictures about 300 (Under Photographs)




What's For July, 2008

Added Pictures-Quite a Few (That need to be filed) from several sources. (Under Photographs-Newpictures)

A Pollard Church Congregation Picture from Madge Haney - Need help on date/names (Under Church/Pictures)

Added a New Picture Folder called "Collections". It has Photographs/Books from Arnold Hanner, Robert Elam, Jim Powers, Park Beam and Andy Jones (Under Photographs/Collections)

Added 9 Basketball Photos from Larry Castle in A.H.S.,Coles J.H. and Russell Elementary (Under Photographs-Schools)

Added a Nicholls Family picture from the 1920s and the KKK (in Central Park) donated by Jerri Jones Taylor (Under Photographs-Family and Central Park)

Added a couple of the original Lily Pond in Central Park (Under Photographs-Central Park)

Added 8 Clyffeside Park Pictures including 2 Park Layout Pictures (Under Photographs-Clyffeside Park)

Added a couple old Boyd Cty Library Pictures (Under Photographs-Buildings-Government)

Added over a dozen photographs (recent) of what use to be the 29th Street Car Stretch donated by Scott Wittich (Under Photographs-Ashland Streets)




What's For September, 2008

Yes, I'm still Here. I hope to add some pictures next month, but it looks busy. Thanks for being patient-Mark



If you have any research material that you no longer need, or if you have produced material that you would like to offer for sale, contact Mark Meinhart  or contact Teresa Scott-Scoggins .

Please bear with us as we try to improve the site. If you find any broken links, or if you have any suggestions or contributions for the site, contact Mark Meinhart  or Teresa Scott-Scoggins  or Judy Nunley Rengel . Remember, this is your web site.

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This page was last modified Sept. 26th, 2008