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Bell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,691.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/21/21013.html )〕 Its county seat is Pineville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was formed August 1, 1867, from parts of Knox and Harlan Counties〔("Bell County, Kentucky" ) Genealogy Inc. Retrieved 2010-07-06.〕 and augmented from Knox County in 1872.〔Census Office. ''Tenth Census of the United Status'' (1880) I:62.〕 The county is named for Joshua Fry Bell, and was originally called "Josh Bell" but shortened to "Bell" by 1880.〔Census Office. op. cit.〕 Bell County is considered a "Wet" county, a special type of county between dry and wet. The County recently changed to moist by a vote in September, 2015 allowing alcohol-by-the-drink sales in Middlesboro, Kentucky. In a standard dry county, all sales of alcoholic beverages are prohibited. Under ABC terminology, a limited county is an otherwise dry county in which at least one city has approved the sale of alcohol by the drink at restaurants that both seat a state-mandated number of diners and derive no more than 30% of their revenue from alcoholic beverages. In the case of Bell County, Pineville had voted to allow alcohol by the drink in restaurants that seat at least 100 diners.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kentucky Counties Wet/Dry Status as of 01/30/2013 )〕 This was the terminology to describe the area until the Middlesboro Vote allowing the retail of alcohol. The Middlesborough, KY Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Bell County. ==History== The Wilderness Road was constructed in the 1790s through what is now Bell County. Bell County was formed on February 28, 1867, from portions of Harlan and Knox counties. It was named for Joshua Fry Bell, an attorney and member of Congress. The courthouse has been thrice destroyed. In 1914 and 1918 it was destroyed by fire and in 1976 through flood. The documents stored there were destroyed as well. The Community of "South America" (known as Frakes since the 1930s) in Bell County appears to have been established in the Spanish Era. Spain did grant land grants in Old Kentucky prior to English settlement. The Community of South America links southeast Kentucky to an era of Indian herbal harvest and sales much like the Daniel Boone era in the state . Bell County has one of the highest ratios of local peace officer deaths of any KY or US county per capita, with 21 deputy sheriffs and a sheriff's K-9 having been killed in the county's history (www.odmp.org (page )) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bell County, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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