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The Present Knobs Region by, Julia, Brittany, and Stephen |
I. GEOGRAPHY
The Knobs region is shaped like a horse shoe.
The Knobs is the smallest region in KY. It is only between 2, 200-2, 500 square miles and it goes across 20 counties.
The region is not very wide-only 10-20 miles wide, but it is very long. The region is 230 miles long.
The reason it is called the Knobs is because it has lots of hills. The hills are shaped differently depending on whether they have hard or soft rock on top. The hills with hard rock on top are shaped like castles. The other hills, with soft rock on top, look like upside down ice cream cones.
*Picture-This is a picture of the Knob shaped hills that gave the region its name.
II. RESOURCES AND INDUSTRY
The Knobs region has a lot of printing and publishing.
They make a lot of whisky in the Knobs region. Whiskey makers like Jim Beam and Maker's Mark age their whiskey for years. The Knobs region has the best selling whiskey in KY.
The hills of the Knobs region are covered with trees and this is good for the timber indsutry. The Knobs region's land is not good for farming on the hills, but they do have agriculture in the valleys.
*Source for graph, Atlas of Kentucky, by Richard Ulack, Karl Raitz, and Guyla Pauer, pg. 185.
*Sources for this web page: Atlas of Kentucky, by Richard Ulack, Karl Raitz, and Gyula Pauer, University of Kentucky Press, 1998; Kentucky: The Bluegrass State, by Peggy Roney Walther, Clairmont Press, 1994; The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, Editor-in-Chief, The University Press of Kentucky, 1992; Kentucky Geoquest, four part video series produced by KET; Classroom Notes, Joy Pickett taken from Building a Society: Kentucky Life From Settlement to Statehood, Kentucky Historical Society, 1992.