Editing Jenkins, Kentucky (section)

==History==
[[File:Jenkins-kentucky-1935.jpg|thumb|left|210px|Coal camp houses in Jenkins during the [[Great Depression]]]]
In autumn of 1911, the [[Consolidation Coal Company]] purchased the current location of Jenkins as part of a {{convert|100000|acre|adj=on}} tract of land in [[Pike County, Kentucky|Pike]], Letcher, and [[Floyd County, Kentucky|Floyd]] [[list of Ky counties|counties]] from the [[Northern Coal and Coke Company]]. After the acquisition was finalized, plans were made to extend the [[Lexington and Eastern Railroad]] from [[Jackson, Kentucky|Jackson]] to a town named [[McRoberts, Kentucky|McRoberts]]. The plans also included the establishment of the town of Jenkins for George C. Jenkins, one of the Consolidation Coal Company's directors.<ref name="history">[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Kentucky/Letcher/Jenkins/_Texts/HJK/C*.html#A History of Jenkins, Kentucky] Retrieved on 2010-2-7</ref>

Because of the need of hundreds of homes and other structures, nine sawmills and two brickyards were erected. A dynamo was built to temporarily generate power for the houses. Next, a temporary narrow-gauge railroad was built over [[Pine Mountain (Appalachian Mountains)|Pine Mountain]] from [[Glamorgan, Virginia]], in order to carry supplies to further the development of the town.<ref name="history"/> Jenkins's city government was established as soon as the businesses and land were put up for sale. The company even went as far to supply the town with its own marshals to enforce the law.<ref name="history"/> Jenkins was finally incorporated as a sixth-class city on January 9, 1912.<ref name=sos>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Jenkins, Kentucky". Accessed 1 August 2013.</ref>

Jenkins was home to [[minor league baseball]] from 1948 to 1951. The [[Jenkins Cavaliers]] played as members of the [[Class D (baseball)|Class D]] level [[Mountain States League (1948–1954)|Mountain States League]]. Jenkins played home games at the Jenkins Athletic Field.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.statscrew.com/venues/v-1261|title=Jenkins Athletic Field in Jenkins, KY history and teams on StatsCrew.com|website=www.statscrew.com}}</ref>

In 1956, Consolidation Coal sold Jenkins to [[Bethlehem Steel]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.whitakerbank.com/2074/mirror/a_community_jenkins.htm|title=Home > About Us > Our Communities > Jenkins}}</ref> Bethlehem Steel closed the mine in 1988.<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0458-3035| last = Hastings| first = Deborah| title = A Kentucky Town Shaped by Hard Lives, Hard Men| work = Los Angeles Times| access-date = 2017-09-30| date = 2000-01-23| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-23-mn-56734-story.html}}</ref>

[[Diana Baldwin]] and [[Anita Cherry]], hired as miners in 1973, are believed to have been the first women to work in an underground coal mine in the United States. They were the first female members of [[United Mine Workers of America]] to work inside a mine.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Armstrong |first1=Holly |title=A Brief History of Women in Mining |url=https://blog.dol.gov/2022/03/22/a-brief-history-of-women-in-mining |work=DOL Blog |publisher=U.S. Department of Labor |date=22 March 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Klemesrud |first1=Judy |title=In Coal Mine No. 29, Two Women Work Alongside the Men |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/18/archives/in-coal-mine-no-29-two-women-work-alongside-the-men-kin-tried-to.html |work=The New York Times |date=18 May 1974 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Two Women Make History as Kentucky Miners |date=26 December 1973 |newspaper=Toledo Blade |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvNOAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Anita+Cherry%22&pg=PA11&article_id=7479,4167861 }}</ref> Cherry and Baldwin were hired by the Beth-Elkhorn Coal Company in Jenkins.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baisden |first1=Harry I. |date=6 September 1974 |title=Two Women Break Sex Bar in Modern Coal Mine |newspaper=The Evening News |page=48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAdHAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Anita+Cherry%22&pg=PA10&article_id=950,911016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Gearhart |first1=Dona G. |date=1995 |title='Surely, a wench can choose her own work!' Women coal miners in Paonia, Colorado, 1976-1987 |publisher=University of Nevada, Las Vegas |doi=10.25669/83uw-c7cr }}</ref>

During the [[Southeast Kentucky floods of 2020]], water spilled over the top of the Elkhorn Lake dam above Jenkins, which is considered one of Kentucky's most dangerous. About 30 percent of Jenkins is vulnerable to flooding in the event of a dam break, and the town lacks a comprehensive emergency plan.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://ohiovalleyresource.org/2020/02/07/states-of-emergencies-declared-amid-eastern-kentucky-floods/|title=States of Emergencies Declared Amid Eastern Kentucky Floods|last=Boles|first=Sydney|date=2020-02-07|website=Ohio Valley ReSource|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wfpl.org/kycir-at-kentuckys-most-dangerous-dams-locals-arent-prepared-for-disaster/|title=At Dangerous Kentucky Dams, Locals Aren't Prepared For Disaster|last=McGlade|first=Caitlin|date=2019-08-06|website=89.3 WFPL News Louisville|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elkhornlakeproject.org/|title=Home|date=2018|website=Elkhorn Lake Project - A Kentucky River Area Development District Health Impact Assessment|language=en|access-date=2020-02-24}}</ref>