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Bluegrass region

The Bluegrass Region is a region of the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, mostly in northern Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a U.S. state located in the East Central United States of America. Kentucky is normally included in the group of Southern United States , but it is uncommonly included, geographically and culturally, in the Midwestern United States....
, containing a majority of the state's population.

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The Bluegrass Region is a region of the United States

United States

Kentucky

Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
. The Inner Blugrass Region (shown in light green on the accompanying map) includes the counties of Franklin

Franklin County, Kentucky

Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed in 1795. As of 2007, the population was 48,183. Its county seat is Frankfort, Kentucky, the List of capitals in the United States#State capitals....
, Scott

Scott County, Kentucky

Scott County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2000, the population was 33,061. Its county seat is Georgetown, Kentucky....
, Harrison

Harrison County, Kentucky

Harrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed in 1794. As of 2000, the population was 17,983. Its county seat is Cynthiana, Kentucky....
, Woodford

Woodford County, Kentucky

Woodford County is a county located in the heart of the Bluegrass region of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2000, the population was 23,208. Its county seat is Versailles, Kentucky....
, Fayette

Fayette County, Kentucky

Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2007, the estimated population was 279,044. Its territory, population and Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky are coextensive with the city of Lexington, Kentucky, which also serves as county seat....
, Bourbon

Bourbon County, Kentucky

Bourbon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed as a county within Virginia in 1786. In 1792, it Lost_counties,_cities,_and_towns_of_Virginia#Kentucky:_ten_lost_counties to the newly formed State of Kentucky....
, and Jessamine

Jessamine County, Kentucky

Jessamine County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is within the Inner Blue Grass region, which was the center of farming and blooded stock raising, including thoroughbred horses....
.

The region gets its name from bluegrass

POA

POA may refer to:* Price On Application or Price On Asking. When seller wants confidentiality.* Public Order Act 1936 , UK law concerning public disorder and violence....
, the common name for grass

Grass

Grass is the common word that generally describes monocotyledonous green plants. The family Poaceae are the "true grasses" and include most plants grown as grains, for pasture, and for lawns ....
of the genus Poa
POA

POA may refer to:* Price On Application or Price On Asking. When seller wants confidentiality.* Public Order Act 1936 , UK law concerning public disorder and violence....
, which is a favored lawn

Lawn

A lawn is an area of recreational or amenity land planted with Poaceae, and sometimes clover and other plants, which are maintained at a low, even height....
and pasture

Pasture

Pasture is land with herbaceous vegetation cover used for grazing of ungulate livestock as part of a farm or ranch. Prior to the advent of factory farming, pasture was the primary source of food for grazing animals such as cattle and horses....
grass in the eastern United States

Eastern United States

The Eastern Half of The United States, the American East, or simply the East is traditionally defined as the states east of the Mississippi River....
from Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
northward.

The Bluegrass region is characterized by underlying fossil

Fossil

Fossils are the preserved remains or trace fossil of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past. The totality of fossils, both discovered and undiscovered, and their placement in fossiliferous Rock formations and sedimentary rock layers is known as the fossil record....
iferous limestone

Limestone

File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
, dolostone

Dolomite

Dolomite is the name of a sedimentary carbonate rock and a mineral, both composed of calcium magnesium carbonate calciummagnesium2 found in crystals....
, and shale

Shale

Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clay minerals or muds. It is characterized by thin laminae breaking with an irregular curving fracture, often splintery and usually parallel to the often-indistinguishable bedding plane....
of the Ordovician

Ordovician

The Ordovician is a geologic period, the second of six of the Paleozoic era , and covers the time between 488.3?1.7 to 443.7?1.5 million years ago ....
geological

Geology

Geology is the science and study of the solid and liquid matter that constitute the Earth. The field of geology encompasses the study of the composition, structural geology, physical properties, dynamics, and History of the Earth of Earth materials, and the processes by which they are formed, moved, and changed....
age. Hills are generally rolling, and the soil

Soil

Soil is the naturally occurring, unconsolidated or loose covering on the Earth's surface. Soil is composed of particles of broken rock that have been altered by chemical and environmental processes including weathering and erosion....
is highly fertile for growing pasture

Pasture

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a list of horse breeds best known for its use in Thoroughbred horse race. Although the word "thoroughbred" is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed....
race horse

Horse

The horse is a hoofed mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolution of the horse over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, odd-toed ungulate animal of today....
s.

The area is becoming increasingly developed with residential and commercial properties, particularly around Lexington. Farms are losing ground to development and slowly disappearing. The World Monuments Fund

World Monuments Fund

The World Monuments Fund is a New York City-based private, non-profit organization dedicated to the historic preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites worldwide through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training....
has included the Bluegrass Region on its global list of 100 most endangered sites.

The Kentucky Bluegrass is bounded on the east by the Cumberland Plateau

Cumberland Plateau

The Cumberland Plateau is the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau. It includes much of eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia, part of Tennessee, and a small portion of northern Alabama and northwest Georgia ....
, with the Pottsville Escarpment

Pottsville Escarpment

The Pottsville Escarpment is a resistant sandstone belt of cliffs and steep sided, narrow crested valleys in eastern Kentucky, United States. It features spectacular cliffs, rock shelters, waterfalls, and natural archs....
forming the boundary. On the south and west, it borders the Pennyroyal Plateau

Pennyroyal Plateau

The Pennyroyal Plateau, or, as it is more commonly called in Kentucky, the Pennyrile, is a large area of the state that features rolling hills, caves, and karst topography in general....
, (also called the Pennyrile), with Muldraugh Hill

Muldraugh Hill

Muldraugh Hill is an escarpment in central Kentucky separating the Bluegrass region on the north and north-east from the Pennyroyal Plateau on the south and south-west....
, another escarpment

Escarpment

In geomorphology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves a sharp, steep elevation differential, characterized by a cliff or steep slope....
, forming the boundary. Much of the region is drained by the Kentucky River

Kentucky River

The Kentucky River is a tributary of the Ohio River, 259 mi long, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The river and its tributaries drain much of the central region of the state, with its upper course passing through the coal-mining regions of the Cumberland Mountains, and its lower course passing through the Bluegrass region in the north central...
and its tributaries

Tributary

A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a Mainstem river. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea. Tributaries and the mainstem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or some other large body of water....
. The river cuts a deep canyon

Canyon

A canyon, or gorge, is a deep valley between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river. Most canyons were formed by a process of long-time erosion from a plateau level....
through the region, preserving meander

Meander

A meander in general is a bend in a sinuosity watercourse, also known as an oxbow loop, or simply an oxbow. A meander is formed when the moving water in a river erodes the outer banks and widens its valley creating a meander....
s that indicate that the river was once a mature low valley that was suddenly uplifted. Particularly near the Kentucky River, the region exhibits karst

KARST

Kilometer-square Area Radio Synthesis Telescope is a Chinese telescope project to which Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope is a forerunner....
topography, with sinkhole

Sinkhole

A sinkhole, also known as a sink, shake hole, swallow hole, swallet, doline or cenote, is a natural depression or hole in the surface topography caused by the removal of soil or bedrock, often both, by water....
s, cave

Cave

A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some part that does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos....
s, and disappearing stream

Stream

A stream is a body of water less than 60 feet wide with a current , confined within a stream bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as brook, beck, Burn , creek, crick, kill, lick , rill, river syke, bayou, rivu...
s that drain underground to the river.

Although Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has its own roots in Folk music of Ireland, Music of Scotland, Music of Wales and Folk Music of England traditional music....
is popular throughout the region, the genre is actually indirectly named for the state rather than the region.

The overall climate for this region of the United States is a humid subtropical climate. It is located within the Upland South

Upland South

The terms Upper South and Upland South refer to the northern part of the Southern United States, in contrast to the Lower South or Deep South....
region of the United States.

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