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Hazard is a home rule-class city〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Summary and Reference Guide to House Bill 331 City Classification Reform )〕 in and the county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The population was estimated to be 5,346〔http://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2014/SUB-EST2014.html〕 in 2014. == History == Local landowner Elijah Combs Sr. laid out the town in 1824 as the planned seat of the newly established Perry County. Both the town and the county were named for Cdre. Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. The post office was initially known as Perry Court House but the name was officially changed to Hazard in 1854. The city was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1884.〔Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Hazard, Kentucky". Accessed 29 Jul 2013.〕 Long isolated by the surrounding mountains, Hazard was opened to the outside world by the arrival of the railroad in 1912. The only access to the valley had previously been 45 miles down the North Fork of the Kentucky River or a two-week trip over the surrounding mountains. The railroad brought boom times to the town, but the Great Depression saw prosperity end as quickly as it had begun. The song "High Sheriff of Hazard" was written by Tom Paxton in reference to a coal miner's strike in 1964. In 1981, several cast members of the television show ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' viz., Catherine Bach, James Best, Sorrell Booke, and Rick Hurst visited Hazard during its Black Gold Festival. Soon afterwards, the show's stars Tom Wopat and John Schneider made appearances in Hazard. Although there has been a steady decline in Hazard's population since the 1950s, there have been numerous commercial and residential developments within the city. The city is also actively working on a downtown renaissance plan to rejuvenate its business district. Nonetheless, in July 1999, Hazard was the first stop on Pres. Bill Clinton's tour of poverty-stricken communities that had failed to share in the boom of the 1990s. Clinton's wife Hillary visited Hazard on November 2, 2008, at a political rally for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford.〔"(Hillary makes pick in KY House speaker race? )" ''Pol Watchers''. Accessed 2 Nov 2008.〕〔"(Hillary Clinton Stumps For Bruce Lunsford )". WYMT-TV. Accessed 2 Nov 2008.〕 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「Hazard, Kentucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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