Stopover, Kentucky

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Stopover, Kentucky
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Stopover, Kentucky
Coordinates: 37°30′57″N82°05′28″W / 37.51583°N 82.09111°W / 37.51583; -82.09111 Coordinates: 37°30′57″N82°05′28″W / 37.51583°N 82.09111°W / 37.51583; -82.09111
Country United States
State Kentucky
County Pike
Elevation 1,109 ft (338 m)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
  Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code 41568
Area code(s) 606
GNIS feature ID 509142 [1]

Stopover is an unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. It is at the junction of Kentucky Route 194 and Kentucky Route 2062 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Phelps. Stopover had a post office with ZIP code 41568. [2]

Pike County, Kentucky county in Kentucky

Pike County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 65,024. Its county seat is Pikeville. The county was founded in 1821.

Kentucky State of the United States of America

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Although styled as the "State of Kentucky" in the law creating it, (because in Kentucky's first constitution, the name state was used) Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth. Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States.

Kentucky Route 194 (KY 194) is a 85.945-mile-long (138.315 km) state highway in Kentucky that runs from Kentucky Route 1428 east of Emma to Virginia State Route 697 at the Virginia state line south of Argo via Woods, Kimper, Phyllis, Phelps, Freeburn, Majestic, and Stopover.

The town's name came from its first postmaster who also owned the local general store. He would often tell people to "stop over and see" him.[ citation needed ]

The town is home to a small country store and four churches: Shepard Memorial Presbyterian Church, Stopover Church of God, Stopover Freewill Baptist Church, and Camp Creek Pentecostal Church.

Notable person

Don Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy, was born in Stopover. [3]

Don Blankenship American businessman

Donald Leon Blankenship is an American business executive and candidate for the United States Senate in West Virginia in 2018. He was Chairman and CEO of the Massey Energy Company—the sixth largest coal company in the United States—from 2000 until his retirement in 2010. On December 3, 2015, Blankenship was found guilty of one misdemeanor charge of conspiring to willfully violate mine safety and health standards in relation to the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion. On August 14, 2018, Blankenship's campaign for Senate made a statement outlining claims that the US Department of Justice's "Office of Professional Responsibility" has found that the prosecutors who worked to convict Blankenship "failed to disclose sixty-one memoranda of witness interviews ..." and thus committed "reckless" "professional misconduct."

Massey Energy

Massey Energy Company was a coal extractor in the United States with substantial operations in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. By revenue, it was the fourth largest producer of coal in the United States and the largest coal producer in Central Appalachia. By coal production weight, it was the sixth largest producer of coal in the United States.

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