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Boyd County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 49,542.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/21/21019.html )〕 The county seat is Catlettsburg,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 and its largest city is Ashland. The county was formed in 1860. Its are found at the northeastern edge of the state near the Ohio River and Big Sandy River, nestled in the verdant rolling hills of Appalachia. Boyd County is part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 287,702. New definitions from February 28, 2013 placed the population at 363,000. ==History== Boyd County, established in 1860, was the 107th of 120 counties formed in the state of Kentucky and was established in 1860 from parts of surrounding Greenup, Carter, and Lawrence counties.〔 It was named for Linn Boyd of Paducah, former U.S. congressman, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, who died in 1859 soon after being elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky. The earliest evidence of human habitation in Boyd County exists in the forms of numerous earthen mounds containing human skeletons and burial goods giving evidence that prehistoric Native Americans inhabited the area. A 1973 archeological find revealed a serpent-shaped mound built of rocks dating to 2000 BC and stretching for along a ridge parallel to the Big Sandy River south of Catlettsburg.〔Thompson, George E. ''You Live Where?: Interesting and Unusual Facts about where We Live'', (p. 150 ). iUniverse (New York), 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2014.〕 One of the early settlers in what is now Boyd County was Charles ("One-handed Charley") Smith, from Virginia. A veteran of the French and Indian War who had served under Col. George Washington in 1754, Smith received for that service roughly around Chadwicks Creek, where he built a cabin in 1774.〔 Smith died in 1776 and in 1797 this land passed to Alexander Catlett for whom the town of Catlettsburg is named. The Poage family arrived from Staunton, Virginia, in October 1799 and formed Poage's Landing, later renamed the city of Ashland.〔''A history of Ashland, Kentucky, 1854-2004.'' Ashland Bicentennial Committee. 2004. 11 August 2014.〕 The first courthouse built in 1861 was replaced in 1912. 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「Boyd County, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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