Editing Ohio County, Kentucky (section)

==History==
Ohio County was formed in 1798 from land taken from [[Hardin County, Kentucky|Hardin County]].<ref>{{Cite web |year=2000 |title=Ohio County |url=http://www.kyenc.org/entry/o/OHIOC02.html |access-date=August 23, 2014 |publisher=The Kentucky Encyclopedia}}</ref> Ohio was the 35th [[list of Kentucky counties|Kentucky county]] in order of formation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Collins, Lewis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZFQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA26 |title=Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, Volume 2 |publisher=Collins & Company |year=1882 |pages=26}}</ref> It was named for the [[Ohio River]], which originally formed its northern boundary, but it lost its northern portions in 1829, when [[Daviess County, Kentucky|Daviess County]] and [[Hancock County, Kentucky|Hancock County]] were formed. The first settlements in Ohio County were Barnetts Station and Hartford. In January 1865, during the [[American Civil War]], the courthouse in Hartford was burned by Kentucky [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] cavalry because it was being used to house soldiers of the occupying [[Union army]]. However, the county records were removed first and preserved. Ohio County is famous for its coal mines, and was the second place county producing coal in Kentucky.<ref name="coalfaq">{{Cite web |title=Kentucky Coal Facts |url=https://eec.ky.gov/Energy/Coal%20Facts%20%20Annual%20Editions/Kentucky%20Coal%20Facts%20-%2017th%20Edition%20(2017).pdf |access-date=December 27, 2019 |website=eec.ky.gov |publisher=Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet |language=en-us}}</ref>