Kentucky Mountain Bible College ( KMBC ) is a private Holiness bible college in Vancleve, Kentucky . It is a ministry of the Kentucky Mountain Holiness Association . The college claims that over 70% of its graduates have entered Christian ministry, including speakers, missionaries, and pastors in over 60 countries worldwide.
109-463: Kentucky Mountain Bible College was initially established by Lela G. McConnell and Martha Archer in 1931. as an offshoot of the nearby Mount Carmel High School. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Pelfrey donated the land, which had been at one time used by a defunct coal mining company as a commissary, approximately three miles from the present site. Because of the "young people with the call of God upon them" who "felt
218-463: A fragile ecosystem known as the Southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest . Fraser fir rarely occurs below 5,500 ft (1,700 m), and becomes the dominant tree type at 6,200 ft (1,900 m). By contrast, balsam fir is found from near sea level to the tree line in the northern Appalachians, but ranges only as far south as Virginia and West Virginia in the central Appalachians, where it
327-713: A great thickness of sediment accumulated. Eventually, the tectonic forces pulling the two continents apart became so strong that an ocean formed off the eastern coast of the Laurentian margin. This was called the Iapetus Ocean and was the precursor of the modern Atlantic Ocean. The rocks of the Valley and Ridge province formed over millions of years, in the Iapetus. Shells and other hard parts of ancient marine plants and animals accumulated to form limey deposits that later became limestone. This
436-656: A new ocean opened up, the Rheic Ocean , during the Middle to Late Devonian, and subsequently its closure would result in the formation of the Alleghanian orogeny . As the continental plates moved closer together, fragments of oceanic crust, islands, and other continental masses collided with the eastern margin of ancestral North America. By this time, plants had appeared on land, followed by scorpions, insects, and amphibians. The ocean continued to shrink until, about 270 million years ago,
545-455: A new site donated by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fletcher, and his sister, Laura. Located on a hill and above the flood plain, the new three-acre campus featured only a half-finished building with 18 students when it opened. This building was developed into the modern Administration building and girls' dorm. Growth and building continued at a feverish pace, starting with the Myers Chapel in 1940, named for
654-504: A number of deciduous rhododendrons (azaleas), and smaller heaths such as teaberry ( Gaultheria procumbens ) and trailing arbutus ( Epigaea repens ). The evergreen great rhododendron ( Rhododendron maximum ) is characteristic of moist stream valleys. These occurrences are in line with the prevailing acidic character of most oak forest soils. In contrast, the much rarer chinquapin oak ( Quercus muehlenbergii ) demands alkaline soils and generally grows where limestone rock
763-444: A number of serious insect and disease outbreaks. Among the most conspicuous is that of the introduced spongy moth ( Lymantria dispar ), which infests primarily oaks, causing severe defoliation and tree mortality. But it also has the benefit of eliminating weak individuals, and thus improving the genetic stock, as well as creating rich habitat of a type through accumulation of dead wood. Because hardwoods sprout so readily, this moth
872-497: A second teacher, and just two students. KMBI initially offered a two-year Bible course. After the first semester, additional faculty and students were added. A men's dormitory was completed in 1937. In 1938, KMBI expanded to a three-year program which included practical studies. The program was a full Bible course offering theology, psychology, ethics, church history, English, speech, Greek, homiletics, instrumental music, and vocal music. On February 5, 1939, heavy snow and rains caused
981-503: A three-way intersection with KY 107 in the city of Hopkinsville. KY 107 heads west along East Seventh Street and northeast along Greenville Road, and KY 507 heads east along East Seventh Street. Further east, KY 507 splits northeast along Butler Road while KY 1979 continues along East Seventh Street to US 68 and KY 80 . KY 507 heads northeast and meets the western end of KY 508 , which continues on Butler Road while KY 507 continues on Pilot Rock Road. The route twice crosses Lower Branch of
1090-539: A variety of oaks ( Quercus spp.), hickories ( Carya spp.) and, in the past, by the American chestnut ( Castanea dentata ). The American chestnut was virtually eliminated as a canopy species by the introduced fungal chestnut blight ( Cryphonectaria parasitica ), but lives on as sapling-sized sprouts that originate from roots, which are not killed by the fungus. In present-day forest canopies, chestnut has been largely replaced by oaks. The oak forests of
1199-585: A variety of other destructive activities continue, albeit in diminished forms; and thus far only a few ecologically based management practices have taken hold. Appalachian bogs are boreal ecosystems , which occur in many places in the Appalachians, particularly the Allegheny and Blue Ridge subranges. Though popularly called bogs , many of them are technically fens . Kentucky Route 541 Kentucky supplemental roads and rural secondary highways are
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#17328908465381308-646: Is "section". The Appalachian Uplands are one of the seven physiographic divisions in Canada . Canada's GSC does not use the same classification system as the USGS below the division level. The agency does break the divisions of the Appalachian Uplands into 13 subsections that are in four different political provinces of Canada. While the Appalachian Highlands and Appalachian Uplands are generally continuous across
1417-749: Is a 1.305-mile-long (2.100 km) state highway in Bell County . Kentucky Route 517 ( KY 517 ) is a 2.800-mile-long (4.506 km) state highway in Allen County that runs from Kentucky Route 252 to Bailey Point Road and Hix Road northeast of Cedar Springs along the shore of Barren River Lake . Kentucky Route 518 ( KY 518 ) was a state highway in Lincoln County. It ran from KY 78 in Hustonville via Mt. Salem Road to KY 198 in Mt. Salem. The highway
1526-458: Is a 1.784-mile-long (2.871 km) state highway in Adair County that runs from Kentucky Route 55 and Keltner Road to Kentucky Route 2971 north of Columbia . Kentucky Route 531 ( KY 531 ) is a 5.301-mile-long (8.531 km) state highway in Adair County that runs from Kentucky Route 80 east of Ozark to Kentucky Route 206 at Christine via Craycraft . The entire route
1635-637: Is a 10.235-mile-long (16.472 km) state highway in Hopkins County that runs from Kentucky Route 109 and Bone Road at Rabbit Ridge to Old Morganfield Road and Balls Hill Road north of Nebo via Nebo. The entire route is in Hopkins County . Kentucky Route 503 ( KY 503 ) is a 10.579-mile-long (17.025 km) state highway that runs from Kentucky Route 5 north of Princess to Kentucky Route 3105 and Industrial Road in Wurtland via Naples and Danleyton . Kentucky Route 504 ( KY 504 )
1744-549: Is a 10.245-mile-long (16.488 km) state highway that runs from Kentucky Route 902 northeast of Enon to U.S. Route 60 , Kentucky Route 91 , and West Depot Street in downtown Marion via Piney Fork . Kentucky Route 507 ( KY 507 ) is a 23.402-mile-long (37.662 km) rural secondary highway in eastern Christian County and northern Todd County . The highway extends from KY 107 in Hopkinsville east to KY 106 and KY 178 at Claymour via Allegre . KY 507 begins at
1853-531: Is a 16.713-mile-long (26.897 km) state highway that runs from Kentucky Route 32 just east of Elliottville to Kentucky Route 7 at Green via Ault and Gimlet . Kentucky Route 505 ( KY 505 ) is a 18.993-mile-long (30.566 km) rural secondary highway in eastern Ohio County . The highway extends from US 231 southeast of Cromwell north to KY 878 at Olaton via Oak Grove , Select , Baizetown , and Windy Hill . KY 505 begins at US 231 () southeast of Cromwell. The highway heads northeast, bridges
1962-682: Is a 2,175-mile (3,500 km) hiking trail that runs all the way from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia , passing over or past a large part of the Appalachian range. The International Appalachian Trail is an extension of this hiking trail into the Canadian portion of the Appalachian range in New Brunswick and Quebec . While exploring inland along the northern coast of Florida in 1528,
2071-511: Is a 5.152-mile-long (8.291 km) state highway in Graves County that runs from Kentucky Route 408 and Wayne Freeman Road northeast of Clear Springs to Kentucky Route 348 in southeastern Symsonia . The entire route is in Graves County . Kentucky Route 535 ( KY 535 ) is a 0.600-mile-long (0.966 km) state highway in Fonde , Bell County that runs from Kentucky Route 74 to
2180-524: Is a 9.691-mile-long (15.596 km) state highway in Nelson County that runs from Kentucky Route 245 and Marr Lane southeast of Deatsville and going through Deatsville and Lenore . KY 523 was extended on its eastern end upon the completion of a realigned section of Louisville Road ( US 31E / US 150 ). KY 523 now follows the former alignment of Louisville Road from its former terminus 2 miles south of High Grove northward for approximately 4½ miles to
2289-483: Is a boreal species that forms a few high elevation outliers as far south as West Virginia. All of these species except white pine tend to occupy sandy, rocky, poor soil sites, which are mostly acidic in character. White pine, a large species valued for its timber, tends to do best in rich, moist soil, either acidic or alkaline in character. Pitch pine is also at home in acidic, boggy soil, and Table Mountain pine may occasionally be found in this habitat as well. Shortleaf pine
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#17328908465382398-509: Is expected. In addition to chapel, undergraduate students are required to choose a local church to attend every Sunday. Voluntary group personal discipleship and private mentoring is available to all students. Appalachian Mountains The Appalachian Mountains , often called the Appalachians , are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America . The term "Appalachian" refers to several different regions associated with
2507-403: Is found at high elevations in the northern Appalachians, and in bogs as far south as Pennsylvania. The Appalachians are also home to two species of fir, the boreal balsam fir ( Abies balsamea ), and the southern high elevation endemic, Fraser fir ( Abies fraseri ). Fraser fir is endemic to the highest parts of the southern Appalachian Mountains, where along with red spruce it forms
2616-533: Is generally found in warmer habitats and at lower elevations than the other species. All the species listed do best in open or lightly shaded habitats, although white pine also thrives in shady coves, valleys, and on floodplains. The Appalachians are characterized by a wealth of large, beautiful deciduous broadleaf (hardwood) trees. Their occurrences are best summarized and described in E. Lucy Braun 's 1950 classic, Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America (Macmillan, New York). The most diverse and richest forests are
2725-544: Is housed in the Davis Memorial Building. It has over 30,000 items including books, CDs, DVDs, videos, sheet music, song flashcards, and Sunday school supplies. Recreation in the area includes hiking, rock climbing, canoeing, and other outdoor activities. A student-led social committee organizes social events throughout the school year. Chapel takes place at Kentucky Mountain Bible College three times per week (Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday). Student chapel attendance
2834-589: Is in Adair County . Kentucky Route 532 ( KY 532 ) is a 2.302-mile-long (3.705 km) state highway in Adair County that runs from New Cedar Grove Road at the Green County line to Kentucky Route 61 southwest of Hatcher . Kentucky Route 533 ( KY 533 ) is a 16.673-mile-long (26.833 km) state highway in that runs from Kentucky Route 496 southeast of Edmonton to Independence Ridge Road and Pelston Cemetery Road east of Breeding via Cofer and Breeding. Kentucky Route 534 ( KY 534 )
2943-752: Is in Anderson County . Kentucky Route 514 ( KY 514 ) is a 8.685-mile-long (13.977 km) state highway in Caldwell County that runs from Ferguson Road at the Caldwell- Lyon County line west of Hopson to Kentucky Routes 126 and 128 northwest of Cobb via Hopson. The entire route is in Caldwell County . Kentucky Route 515 ( KY 515 ) is a 2.666-mile-long (4.291 km) state highway in Caldwell County that runs from Kentucky Route 903 to Kentucky Route 139 south-southeast of Princeton . Kentucky Route 516 ( KY 516 )
3052-612: Is in Laurel County . Kentucky Route 522 ( KY 522 ) is a 17.665-mile-long (28.429 km) state highway in Harlan County that runs from U.S. Route 119 and Ross Drive in Rosspoint to Kentucky Route 160 at Sand Hill via Rosspoint, Rhea , Dillon , Laden , Nolansburg , Totz , Dione , Hiram , and Chad . It is the original alignment of US 119. The entire route is in Harlan County . Kentucky Route 523 ( KY 523 )
3161-714: Is in Oldham County . Kentucky Route 525 ( KY 525 ) is a 9.691-mile-long (15.596 km) state highway in Trigg County that runs from Kentucky Route 164 west of Roaring Spring to Kentucky Route 139 south of Cadiz . The entire route is in Trigg County . Kentucky Route 529 ( KY 529 ) is a 1.809-mile-long (2.911 km) state highway in Washington County that runs from Valley Hill Road and Croakes Station Road at Booker to Kentucky Route 55 west of Mooresville . Kentucky Route 530 ( KY 530 )
3270-565: Is in Whitley County . Kentucky Route 512 ( KY 512 ) is a 9.927-mile-long (15.976 km) state highway that runs from Kentucky Route 395 at Birdie to U.S. Route 127 east of Alton via Alton Station and Alton. The entire route is in Anderson County . Kentucky Route 513 ( KY 513 ) is a 9.331-mile-long (15.017 km) state highway that runs from U.S. Route 62 at Fox Creek to Harry Wise Road and Gilberts Creek Road east of McBrayer via McBrayer. The entire route
3379-414: Is near the surface. Hence no ericaceous shrubs are associated with it. The Appalachian flora also include a diverse assemblage of bryophytes (mosses and liverworts), as well as fungi . Some species are rare and/or endemic. As with vascular plants , these tend to be closely related to the character of the soils and the thermal environment in which they are found. Eastern deciduous forests are subject to
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3488-465: Is not as harmful as the hemlock woolly adelgid . Perhaps more serious is the introduced beech bark disease complex, which includes both a scale insect ( Cryptococcus fagisuga ) and fungal components. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Appalachian forests were subject to severe and destructive logging and land clearing, which resulted in the designation of the national forests and parks as well many state-protected areas. However, these and
3597-517: Is now the southern United States, the Ococee Basin was formed. Seawater filled the basin. Rivers from the surrounding countryside carried clay, silt, sand, and gravel to the basin, much as rivers today carry sediment from the midcontinent region to the Gulf of Mexico. The sediment spread out in layers on the basin floor. The basin continued to subside, and over a long period of time, probably millions of years,
3706-591: Is one of the provinces of the Appalachian Highlands. The Appalachian range runs from the Island of Newfoundland in Canada, 2,050 mi (3,300 km) southwestward to Central Alabama in the United States; south of Newfoundland, it crosses the 96-square-mile (248.6 km ) archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon , an overseas collectivity of France , meaning it is technically in three countries. The highest peak of
3815-535: Is possible that the cratons of Kalahari , and Rio Plato , were also part of that early collision since they were present as Rodinia broke up). Mountain-building referred to as the Grenville Orogeny occurred along the boundaries of the cratons. The present Appalachian Mountains have at least two areas which are made from rock formations that were formed during this orogeny - the Blue Ridge Mountains and
3924-479: Is present today. The Appalachian Mountains are a barrier to east–west travel, as they form a series of alternating ridgelines and valleys oriented in opposition to most highways and railroads running east–west. This barrier was extremely important in shaping the expansion of the United States in the colonial era. The range is the home of a very popular recreational feature, the Appalachian Trail . This
4033-645: Is subject to the hemlock woolly adelgid ( Adelges tsugae ), an introduced insect, that is rapidly extirpating it as a forest tree. Less abundant, and restricted to the southern Appalachians, is Carolina hemlock ( Tsuga caroliniana ). Like Canada hemlock, this tree suffers severely from the hemlock woolly adelgid. Several species of pines characteristic of the Appalachians are eastern white pine ( Pinus strobus ), Virginia pine ( Pinus virginiana ), pitch pine ( Pinus rigida ), Table Mountain pine ( Pinus pungens ) and shortleaf pine ( Pinus echinata ). Red pine ( Pinus resinosa )
4142-506: Is the same process by which limestone forms in modern oceans. The weathering of limestone, now exposed at the land surface, produces the lime-rich soils that are so prevalent in the fertile farmland of the Valley and Ridge province. During this continental break-up, around 600 million to 560 million years ago, volcanic activity was present along the tectonic margins. There is evidence of this activity in today's Blue Ridge Mountains. Mount Rogers , Whitetop Mountain , and Pine Mountain are all
4251-459: Is usually confined above 3,900 ft (1,200 m) asl, except in cold valleys. Curiously, it is associated with oaks in Virginia. The balsam fir of Virginia and West Virginia is thought by some to be a natural hybrid between the more northern variety and Fraser fir. While red spruce is common in both upland and bog habitats, balsam fir, as well as black spruce and tamarack, are more characteristic of
4360-611: The Adirondacks . After the Grenville orogeny, the direction of the continental drift reversed, and the single supercontinent Rodinia began to break up. The mountains formed during the Grenvillian era underwent erosion due to weathering, glaciation, and other natural processes, resulting in the leveling of the landscape. The eroded sediments from these mountains contributed to the formation of sedimentary basins and valleys. For example, in what
4469-581: The Coal Region of northeastern Pennsylvania . The bituminous coal fields of western Pennsylvania , western Maryland , southeastern Ohio, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia , and West Virginia contain the sedimentary form of coal. The mountain top removal method of coal mining , in which entire mountain tops are removed, is currently threatening vast areas and ecosystems of the Appalachian Mountain region. The surface coal mining that started in
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4578-723: The Gulf of Mexico . In the central section, north of the New River, the rivers, rising in or just beyond the Valley Ridges, flow through great gorges to the Great Valley, and then across the Blue Ridge to tidal estuaries penetrating the coastal plain via the Roanoke River, James River , Potomac River , and Susquehanna River . In the northern section the height of land lies on the inland side of
4687-704: The Iapetus Ocean , from the North America/Europe collision (See Caledonian orogeny ). By the end of the Mesozoic Era , the Appalachian Mountains had been eroded to an almost flat plain. It was not until the region was uplifted during the Cenozoic Era that the distinctive topography of the present formed. Uplift rejuvenated the streams, which rapidly responded by cutting downward into the ancient bedrock. Some streams flowed along weak layers that define
4796-484: The North American craton . Volcanoes grew along the continental margin coincident with the initiation of subduction . Thrust faulting uplifted and warped older sedimentary rock laid down on the passive margin. As the mountains rose, erosion began to wear them down over time. Streams carried rock debris downslope to be deposited in nearby lowlands. The Taconic orogeny ended after about 60 million years, but built much of
4905-512: The Paducah and Louisville Railway shortly before its junction with US 62 east of Rosine . The two highway run concurrently east until KY 505 splits north near Horse Branch . KY 505 continues along Dan Road, which crosses Muddy Creek and a branch of Caney Creek before reaching its northern terminus at KY 878 at Olaton. The entire route is in Ohio County . Kentucky Route 506 ( KY 506 )
5014-706: The eastern seaboard of the United States and the Midwest region of the country. The Eastern Continental Divide follows the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia. The Appalachians, particularly the Central and Southern regions, is one of the most biodiverse places in North America. The north–south orientation of the long ridges and valleys contributes to the high number of plant and animal species. Species were able to migrate through these from either direction during alternating periods of warming and cooling, settling in
5123-636: The homosexual lifestyle . KMBC offers two degrees: an associate degree in Biblical Studies and a bachelor's degree in Religion. The campus of Kentucky Mountain Bible College is located on a hilltop off of Kentucky route 541 in Vancleve, KY. There have been numerous additions in recent years, the most recent of which is the Helen Matthews Luce Chapel & Fine Arts Building. The Gibson Library
5232-1546: The mixed-mesophytic or medium-moisture types, which are largely confined to rich, moist montane soils of the southern and central Appalachians, particularly in the Cumberland and Allegheny Mountains, but also thrive in the southern Appalachian coves. Characteristic canopy species are white basswood ( Tilia heterophylla ), yellow buckeye ( Aesculus octandra ), sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ), American beech ( Fagus grandifolia ), tuliptree ( Liriodendron tulipifera ), white ash ( Fraxinus americana ) and yellow birch ( Betula alleganiensis ). Other common trees are red maple ( Acer rubrum ), shagbark and bitternut hickories ( Carya ovata and C. cordiformis ) and black or sweet birch ( Betula lenta ). Small understory trees and shrubs include paw paw ( Asimina tribola ), flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida ), hophornbeam ( Ostrya virginiana ), witch-hazel ( Hamamelis virginiana ) and spicebush ( Lindera benzoin ). There are also hundreds of perennial and annual herbs, among them such herbal and medicinal plants as American ginseng ( Panax quinquefolius ), goldenseal ( Hydrastis canadensis ), bloodroot ( Sanguinaria canadensis ) and black cohosh ( Cimicifuga racemosa ). The foregoing trees, shrubs, and herbs are also more widely distributed in less rich mesic forests that generally occupy coves, stream valleys and flood plains throughout
5341-581: The 1940s has significantly impacted the central Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky , Tennessee , Virginia and West Virginia. Early mining methods were unregulated and mined land reclamation research, including acid base reaction , was led by the West Virginia University in the 1960s and 1970s. West Virginia developed rigorous mine reclamation standards for state coal mines in the late 1960s. Regulations were introduced by most federal states to protect
5450-546: The Appalachian Basin. Some plateaus of the Appalachian Mountains contain metallic minerals such as iron and zinc . There are many geological issues concerning the rivers and streams of the Appalachians. In spite of the existence of the Great Appalachian Valley, many of the main rivers are transverse to the mountain system axis. The drainage divide of the Appalachians follows a tortuous course that crosses
5559-610: The Appalachian Mountains by the late 1960s. Social and political activism brought about the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 . The 1859 discovery of commercial quantities of petroleum in the Appalachian Mountains of western Pennsylvania started the modern United States petroleum industry . Recent discoveries of commercial natural gas deposits in the Marcellus Shale formation and Utica Shale formations have once again focused oil industry attention on
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#17328908465385668-536: The Blue Ridge again reaches 2,000 ft (600 m) and higher. In the Virginia Blue Ridge, the following are some of the highest peaks north of the Roanoke River : Stony Man 4,031 ft (1,229 m), Hawksbill Mountain 4,066 ft (1,239 m), Apple Orchard Mountain 4,225 ft (1,288 m) and Peaks of Otter 4,001 and 3,875 ft (1,220 and 1,181 m). South of the Roanoke River, along
5777-708: The Blue Ridge, are Virginia's highest peaks including Whitetop Mountain 5,520 ft (1,680 m) and Mount Rogers 5,729 ft (1,746 m), the highest point in the Commonwealth. Chief summits in the southern section of the Blue Ridge are located along two main crests, the Western or Unaka Front along the Tennessee - North Carolina border and the Eastern Front in North Carolina, or one of several "cross ridges" between
5886-883: The Great Balsams. The Western Blue Ridge Front is subdivided into the Unaka Range , the Bald Mountains , the Great Smoky Mountains , and the Unicoi Mountains , and its major peaks include Roan Mountain 6,285 ft (1,916 m) in the Unakas, Big Bald 5,516 ft (1,681 m) and Max Patch 4,616 ft (1,407 m) in the Bald Mountains, Kuwohi 6,643 ft (2,025 m), Mount Le Conte 6,593 feet (2,010 m), and Mount Guyot 6,621 ft (2,018 m) in
5995-555: The Great Smokies, and Big Frog Mountain 4,224 ft (1,287 m) near the Tennessee- Georgia -North Carolina border. Prominent summits in the cross ridges include Waterrock Knob (6,292 ft (1,918 m)) in the Plott Balsams . Across northern Georgia, numerous peaks exceed 4,000 ft (1,200 m), including Brasstown Bald , the state's highest, at 4,784-and-4,696 ft (1,458-and-1,431 m) Rabun Bald . In north-central Alabama , Mount Cheaha rises prominently to 1,445 feet (440 m) over its surroundings, as part of
6104-492: The North Fork of the Little River on its way to Pleasant Hill . KY 507 crosses the South Fork of the Little River before crossing the Christian–Todd county line. The highway continues east and meets the eastern end of KY 189 (Moss Road) just west of the route's bridge across Buck Fork Creek. KY 507 crosses the Shelton Branch of the Pond River just west of Allegre , where the route intersects KY 171 (Allegre Road). The highway continues along Highland Lick Road, which crosses
6213-687: The Pond River and intersects KY 181 (Greenville Road) south of Cedar Grove . KY 507 continues southeast to Claymour, the site of the route's terminus at a four-way intersection with KY 106 (Sharon Grove Road) and KY 178, which takes over the course of Highland Lick Road. Kentucky Route 508 ( KY 508 ) is a 13.805-mile-long (22.217 km) rural secondary highway in eastern Christian County and western Todd County . The highway begins at KY 507 east of Hopkinsville . KY 507 heads west along Butler Road and northeast along Pilot Rock Road; KY 508 heads southeast along Butler Road, which veers east at its junction with KY 1716 (Overby Lane). The highway crosses
6322-405: The Rural Secondary System numbered 500 to 599 that do not have portions within the State Primary and State Secondary systems. Kentucky Route 500 is a 3.180-mile-long (5.118 km) rural secondary highway in western Daviess County . The highway begins at KY 56 at St. Joseph . KY 500 heads north toward Curdsville , meeting the west end of KY 456 south of the village. The highway enters
6431-604: The South Fork of the Little River just west of its junction with KY 1843 (Vaughns Grove Fairview Road). KY 508 passes through Honey Grove before crossing the Christian–Todd county line. The highway follows Butler Road through Britmart to Tabernacle. From there, KY 508 follows Liberty–Britmart Road to its east end at Liberty . Kentucky Route 509 ( KY 509 ) is a 9.782-mile-long (15.743 km) rural secondary highway in northwestern Nelson County . The highway begins at KY 245 (New Shepherdsville Road) south of Samuels . KY 509 heads north along Samuels Loop to Samuels, where
6540-426: The U.S./Canadian border, the St. Lawrence Valley area is handled differently in the physiographic classification schemas. The part of the St. Lawrence Valley in the United States is one of the second-level classifications, part of the Appalachian Highlands. In Canada, the area is part of the first-level classification, the St. Lawrence Lowlands . This includes the area around the city of Montreal, Anticosti Island , and
6649-443: The West Prong of Indian Camp Creek, and crosses over the William H. Natcher Parkway . The highway gradually curves east as it crosses three branches of Indian Camp Creek and passes through Oak Grove and Select . At Baizetown , KY 505 meets the northern end of KY 1118 and turns north. The highway crosses the Western Kentucky Parkway on its way to Windy Hill , where the route meets the western end of KY 2713 . KY 505 crosses over
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#17328908465386758-457: The adjective Appalachian is / ˌ æ p ə ˈ l æ tʃ i ə n / , with the last two syllables "-ian" pronounced as in the word "Romanian". Perhaps partly because the range runs through large portions of both the United States and Canada, and partly because the range was formed over numerous geologic time periods, one of which is sometimes termed the Appalachian orogeny , writing communities struggle to agree on an encyclopedic definition of
6867-509: The city of Fairfield . The entire route is in Nelson County . Kentucky Route 510 ( KY 510 ) is a 10.124-mile-long (16.293 km) state highway that runs from Kentucky Route 221 at Pine Mountain to Kentucky Route 463 north of Gordon via Gilley . Kentucky Route 511 ( KY 511 ) is a 7.331-mile-long (11.798 km) state highway that runs from U.S. Route 25W east of Youngs Creek to Kentucky Route 26 and Youngs Lane at Rockholds via Walden . The entire route
6976-429: The college objected to a phone number it had been assigned with the prefix 666 , which is associated in Christian tradition with Satan . The local phone company changed the prefix to another newly available exchange. The college was granted an exception to Title IX in 2017 which allows it to legally discriminate against LGBT students for religious reasons. All faculty and staff must yearly affirm that they will avoid
7085-457: The continent that are now exposed. The first mountain-building tectonic plate collision that initiated the construction of what are today the Appalachians occurred at least a billion years ago when the pre-North American craton called Laurentia collided with at least one other craton - Amazonia . All the other cratons of the earth also collided at about this time to form the supercontinent Rodinia and were surrounded by one single ocean. (It
7194-416: The continents that were ancestral to North America and Africa collided during the formation of the supercontinent Pangea . Because North America and Africa were once geographically connected, the Appalachians formed part of the same mountain chain as the Little Atlas in Morocco . This mountain range, known as the Central Pangean Mountains , extended into Scotland , before the Mesozoic Era opening of
7303-412: The deciduous needle-leaf conifer, the tamarack , or eastern larch ( Larix laricina ). The dominant northern and high elevation conifer is the red spruce ( Picea rubens ), which grows from near sea level to above 4,000 ft (1,200 m) above sea level (asl) in northern New England and southeastern Canada. It also grows southward along the Appalachian crest to the highest elevations of
7412-529: The driest sites are dominated by chestnut oak, or sometimes by scarlet or northern red oaks. In the northern Appalachians the oaks, except for white and northern red, drop out, while the latter extends farthest north. The oak forests generally lack the diverse small tree, shrub and herb layers of mesic forests. Shrubs are generally ericaceous , and include the evergreen mountain laurel ( Kalmia latifolia ), various species of blueberries ( Vaccinium spp.), black huckleberry ( Gaylussacia baccata ),
7521-439: The drowned teacher who had given of himself to KMBI. Swauger Hall was constructed right before Brengle Hall, and by 1945, the campus was well-developed. Archer Auditorium was begun in the summer of 1961 and was ready for graduation classes for 1962. In 1989 Candidate Status was granted for institutional accreditation with the Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges (now Association for Biblical Higher Education ). In 1994, KMBC
7630-440: The eight physiographic regions of the contiguous 48 United States. The Appalachian Uplands is the name of one of seven physiographic regions of Canada. The second level in the physiographic classification schema for the USGS is "province", the same word as Canada uses to divide its political subdivisions, meaning that the terminology used by the two countries do not match below the region level. The lowest level of classification
7739-425: The folds and faults created many millions of years earlier. Other streams downcut so rapidly that they cut right across the resistant folded rocks of the mountain core, carving canyons across rock layers and geologic structures. The Appalachian Mountains contain major deposits of anthracite coal as well as bituminous coal . In the folded mountains the coal is in metamorphosed form as anthracite , represented by
7848-443: The formation of the Appalachian Mountains started 1.1 billion years ago. The first mountain range in the region was created when the continents of Laurentia and Amazonia collided, creating a supercontinent called Rodinia . The collision of these continents caused the rocks to be folded and faulted, creating the first mountains in the region. Many of the rocks and minerals that were formed during that event can currently be seen at
7957-480: The land mass that is now New England and southwestward to Pennsylvania. The Taconic Orogeny was the second of four mountain building plate collisions that contributed to the formation of the Appalachians, culminating in the collision of North America and Africa (see Alleghanian orogeny ). The third mountain-building event was the Acadian orogeny which occurred between 375 and 359 million years ago. The Acadian orogeny
8066-469: The latter. However, balsam fir also does well in soils with a pH as high as 6. Eastern or Canada hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis ) is another important evergreen needle-leaf conifer that grows along the Appalachian chain from north to south but is confined to lower elevations than red spruce and the firs. It generally occupies richer and less acidic soils than the spruce and firs and is characteristic of deep, shaded and moist mountain valleys and coves . It
8175-512: The lesser two of the four functional classes of highways constructed and maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet , the state-level agency that constructs and maintains highways in Kentucky . The agency splits its inventory of state highway mileage into four categories: The same-numbered highway can comprise sections of road under different categories. This list contains descriptions of Supplemental Roads and highways in
8284-572: The members of the Narváez expedition , including Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , found a Native American village near present-day Tallahassee, Florida whose name they transcribed as Apalchen or Apalachen [a.paˈla.tʃɛn] . The name was soon altered by the Spanish to Apalachee and used as a name for the tribe and region spreading well inland to the north. Pánfilo de Narváez 's expedition first entered Apalachee territory on June 15, 1528, and applied
8393-528: The microclimates that best suited them. The flora of the Appalachians are diverse and vary primarily in response to geology, latitude, elevation and moisture availability. Geobotanically, they constitute a floristic province of the North American Atlantic Region . The Appalachians consist primarily of deciduous broad-leaf trees and evergreen needle-leaf conifers, but also contain the evergreen broad-leaf American holly ( Ilex opaca ), and
8502-752: The more notable peaks in West Virginia. The Blue Ridge Mountains , rising in southern Pennsylvania and there known as South Mountain , attain elevations of about 2,000 ft (600 m) in Pennsylvania. South Mountain achieves its highest point just below the Mason-Dixon line in Maryland at Quirauk Mountain 2,145 ft (654 m) and then diminishes in height southward to the Potomac River . Once in Virginia ,
8611-638: The mountain range is Mount Mitchell in North Carolina at 6,684 feet (2,037 m), which is also the highest point in the United States east of the Mississippi River . The range is older than the other major mountain range in North America, the Rocky Mountains of the west. Some of the outcrops in the Appalachians contain rocks formed during the Precambrian era. The geologic processes that led to
8720-607: The mountain range, and its surrounding terrain. The general definition used is one followed by the United States Geological Survey and the Geological Survey of Canada to describe the respective countries' physiographic regions. The U.S. uses the term Appalachian Highlands and Canada uses the term Appalachian Uplands ; the Appalachian Mountains are not synonymous with the Appalachian Plateau , which
8829-410: The mountain range. However, each of the governments has an agency that informs the public about the major landforms that make up the countries, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). The landforms are referred to as physiographic regions. The regions create precise boundaries from which maps can be drawn. The Appalachian Highlands is the name of one of
8938-745: The mountainous belt just north of the New River in Virginia. South of the New River, rivers head into the Blue Ridge, cross the higher Unakas, receive important tributaries from the Great Valley, and traversing the Cumberland Plateau in spreading gorges ( water gaps ), escape by way of the Cumberland River and the Tennessee River rivers to the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, and thence to
9047-538: The mountainous belt, and thus the main lines of drainage run from north to south, exemplified by the Hudson River . However, the valley through which the Hudson River flows was cut by the gigantic glaciers of the ice ages —the same glaciers that deposited their terminal moraines in southern New York and formed the east–west Long Island . The Appalachian region is generally considered the geographical divide between
9156-475: The name. Now spelled "Appalachian", it is the fourth-oldest surviving European place-name in the US. After the 1540 expedition of Hernando de Soto , Spanish cartographers began to apply the name of the tribe to the mountains themselves. The first cartographic appearance of Apalchen is on Diego Gutiérrez 's map of 1562; the first use for the mountain range is the map of Jacques le Moyne de Morgues in 1565. The name
9265-742: The need of further training beyond the high school work in order to fit them better for missionary work", the Kentucky Mountain Bible Institute , signed as the "Vancleve Church School", was established in order to train young people from the Appalachian foothills of Eastern Kentucky in the areas of ministry and missions. After the remodeling of the commissary, Kentucky Mountain Bible Institute (KMBI) opened in October, 1931 with Martha Archer as its first principal and teacher, Lela McConnell as
9374-532: The new Louisville Road. That is south of the Salt River bridge at the border between Spencer County and Bullitt County . The new section also includes a 1½ mile concurrency with Kentucky Route 48 , which was also slightly extended to meet up the newer incarnation of US 31E / US 150 Kentucky Route 524 ( KY 524 ) is a 12.148-mile-long (19.550 km) state highway in Oldham County that runs from and to U.S. Route 42 via Westport . The entire route
9483-531: The northwest coastline of Newfoundland. The dissected plateau area, while not actually made up of geological mountains, is popularly called "mountains", especially in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia, and while the ridges are not high, the terrain is extremely rugged. In Ohio and New York, some of the plateau has been glaciated , which has rounded off the sharp ridges and filled the valleys to some extent. The glaciated regions are usually referred to as hill country rather than mountains. The Appalachian belt includes
9592-424: The oceans, but there were no plants or animals on land. Then, during the middle Ordovician Period about 500 to 470 million years ago, the motion of the crustal plates changed, and the continents began to move back toward each other. The once-quiet Appalachian passive margin changed to a very active plate boundary when a neighboring Iapetus oceanic plate containing a volcanic arc collided with and began sinking beneath
9701-447: The old commissary and the dormitory, were destroyed. Of the buildings' sixteen occupants, nine drowned. These included staff member Mr. Horace Myers, his three children Titus, Philip, and Lela Grace, students Elsie Booth and Christine Holman, and three guests of the Myers. Mrs. Myers alone survived her family. On 20 October 1939, three and a half months after the flood, the school re-opened at
9810-413: The original school, as well 44 nearby homes, 60 barns, livestock, and killed 54 men and women, including several KMBI students and faculty. The effort to recover and bury bodies lasted for weeks, with one student being found 50 miles downstream. This was the first flood on record that had come rushing down the river, as the other floods had been backups which were mostly still water. Both of KMBI's buildings,
9919-704: The plateaus sloping southward to the Atlantic Ocean in New England , and southeastward to the border of the coastal plain through the central and southern Atlantic states; and on the northwest, the Allegheny and Cumberland plateaus declining toward the Great Lakes and the interior plains. A remarkable feature of the belt is the longitudinal chain of broad valleys, including the Great Appalachian Valley , which in
10028-482: The result of volcanic activity that occurred around this time. Evidence of subsurface activity, dikes and sills intruding into the overlying rock, is present in the Blue Ridge as well. For instance, mafic rocks have been found along the Fries Fault in the central Blue Ridge area of Montgomery County, VA. The Iapetus continued to expand and during that time bacteria, algae, and many species of invertebrates flourished in
10137-445: The river to rise and back up, flooding KMBI's buildings. The bridge that connected KMBI with Mount Carmel had also been washed away. Although the WPA appropriated funds to rebuild the bridges, KMHA workers rebuilt their own bridge within 6 weeks. The other bridges remained closed for almost two years. At 3:30 am on July 5, 1939, a cloudburst on Frozen Creek caused a flash flood that destroyed
10246-590: The route meets the eastern end of KY 3207 , also part of Samuels Loop, and has a grade crossing of an R.J. Corman Railroad Group rail line where it turns east onto Samuels Road. KY 509 heads northeast along Samuels Creek to its mouth at Froman Creek and crosses the latter creek, where the route continues east to Coxs Creek . There, the highway meets the southern end of KY 2739 (Lenore Road) and intersects US 31E and US 150 (Louisville Road). KY 509 continues east as Fairfield Road, which crosses Cox Creek and reaches its eastern terminus at KY 48 (Highgrove Road) west of
10355-706: The same side of the Great Valley, south of the Potomac, are the Pinnacle 3,007 feet (917 m) and Pidgeon Roost 3,400 ft (1,000 m). In West Virginia, more than 150 peaks rise above 4,000 ft (1,200 m), including Spruce Knob 4,863 ft (1,482 m), the highest point in the Allegheny Mountains . A number of other points in the state rise above 4,800 ft (1,500 m). Cheat Mountain ( Snowshoe Mountain ) at Thorny Flat 4,848 ft (1,478 m) and Bald Knob 4,842 ft (1,476 m) are among
10464-409: The same trend as the system itself. None of the summits reaches the region of perpetual snow. In Pennsylvania , there are over sixty summits that rise over 2,500 ft (800 m); the summits of Mount Davis and Blue Knob rise over 3,000 ft (900 m). In Maryland, Eagle Rock and Dans Mountain are conspicuous points reaching 3,162 and 2,882 ft (964 and 878 m) respectively. On
10573-481: The southerly sections divides the mountain system into two unequal portions, but in the northernmost lies west of all the ranges possessing typical Appalachian features, and separates them from the Adirondack group. The mountain system has no axis of dominating altitudes, but in every portion, the summits rise to rather uniform heights, and, especially in the central section, the various ridges and intermontane valleys have
10682-416: The southern Appalachians, as in North Carolina and Tennessee . In the central Appalachians it is usually confined above 3,000 ft (900 m) asl, except for a few cold valleys in which it reaches lower elevations. In the southern Appalachians, it is restricted to higher elevations. Another species is the black spruce ( Picea mariana ), which extends farthest north of any conifer in North America,
10791-413: The southern and central Appalachians consist largely of black , northern red , white , chestnut and scarlet oaks ( Quercus velutina, Q. rubra, Q. alba, Q. prinus and Q. coccinea ) and hickories, such as the pignut ( Carya glabra ) in particular. The richest forests, which grade into mesic types, usually in coves and on gentle slopes, have predominantly white and northern red oaks, while
10900-511: The southern and central Appalachians at low and intermediate elevations. In the northern Appalachians and at higher elevations of the central and southern Appalachians these diverse mesic forests give way to less diverse northern hardwood forests with canopies dominated only by American beech, sugar maple, American basswood ( Tilia americana ) and yellow birch and with far fewer species of shrubs and herbs. Drier and rockier uplands and ridges are occupied by oak–chestnut forests dominated by
11009-535: The southernmost spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Sources written prior to the recognition of the concept of physiographic regions divided the Appalachian Mountains into three major sections: Plate tectonics over the period dating back at least 1 billion years led to geological creation of the land that is now the Appalachian Mountain range. The continental movement led to collisions that built mountains and they later pulled apart creating oceans over parts of
11118-495: The surface of the present Appalachian range. Around 480 million years ago, geologic processes began that led to three distinct orogenic eras that created much of the surface structure seen in today's Appalachians. During this period, mountains once reached elevations similar to those of the Alps and the Rockies before natural erosion occurred over the last 240 million years leading to what
11227-411: The third syllable sounding like "latch". In northern parts of the mountain range, it is pronounced / ˌ æ p ə ˈ l eɪ tʃ ɪ n z / or / ˌ æ p ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ɪ n z / ; the third syllable is like "lay", and the fourth "chins" or "shins". There is often great debate between the residents of the regions regarding the correct pronunciation. Elsewhere, a commonly accepted pronunciation for
11336-607: The two main crests. Major subranges of the Eastern Front include the Black Mountains , Great Craggy Mountains , and Great Balsam Mountains , and its chief summits include Grandfather Mountain 5,964 ft (1,818 m) near the Tennessee-North Carolina border, Mount Mitchell 6,684 ft (2,037 m) in the Blacks, and Black Balsam Knob 6,214 ft (1,894 m) and Cold Mountain 6,030 ft (1,840 m) in
11445-512: The village along Main Street then passes through three right-angle turns before reaching a dead end at the confluence of Panther Creek with the Green River . Kentucky Route 501 ( KY 501 ) is a 23.730-mile-long (38.190 km) state highway that runs from Kentucky Route 910 at Phil to U.S. Route 27 northeast of Kings Mountain via Kings Mountain. Kentucky Route 502 ( KY 502 )
11554-639: Was caused by a series of collisions of pieces of crust from the Avalonia Terrane, sections broken off from continent of Gondwana , with the North American Plate. The collision initiating this orogeny resulted in the closing of the southern Iapetus Ocean and the formation of a high mountain belt. After the Acadian collision took place, Gondwana began to retreat from Laurentia with the newly accreted Avalonian terranes left behind. As Gondwana moved away,
11663-648: Was decommissioned on October 22, 2001, and the road (along with intersecting KY 1562 ) was given to Lincoln County. Kentucky Route 520 ( KY 520 ) is a 2.910-mile-long (4.683 km) state highway in Henderson County that runs from Kentucky Route 136 southeast of Anthoston to Kentucky Route 416 and Upper Delaware Road at Coraville . Kentucky Route 521 ( KY 521 ) is a 2.898-mile-long (4.664 km) state highway in Laurel County that runs from Kentucky Route 1189 southwest of Lesbas to Kentucky Route 80 southwest of Brock . The entire route
11772-716: Was granted membership with AABC . With the recognition as an accredited school by the AABC, KMBC began offering a four-year B.A. in Religion along and a A.A. in Bible/ Biblical Studies . Several facilities including the Davis Memorial Building, which serves as a library, the renovation of the basement in Brengle Hall, the addition of the Coffeehouse underneath Swauger, and the new Helen Matthews Luce Chapel. The current president, Robert D. Pocai, became president in 2022. In 2003,
11881-442: Was not commonly used for the whole mountain range until the late 19th century. A competing and often more popular name was the "Allegheny Mountains", "Alleghenies", and even "Alleghania". In the early 19th century, Washington Irving proposed renaming the United States either Appalachia or Alleghania. In U.S. dialects in the southern regions of the Appalachians, the word is pronounced / ˌ æ p ə ˈ l æ tʃ ɪ n z / , with
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