Kentucky Bend Lies Beyond Tennessee

Kentucky Bend forms a corner of Kentucky completely detached from the rest of the state. Anyone entering by road must travel through Tennessee, while reaching it from Missouri requires crossing the Mississippi River because no road or ferry connects the two. The exclave formed because early surveyors could only estimate where the Kentucky-Tennessee boundary would meet the river, and later surveys revealed that the line crossed one of the Mississippi's looping bends. Only nine people lived there during the 2020 census.

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