The first comprehensive atlas of the state published in over 20 years, the Atlas of Kentucky brings together a wealth of information on the geography, industry, economy, development, and people of the Commonwealth. Includes over 600 maps and 200 color illustrations. Richard Ulack, professor and former chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky and former State Geographer, is author of Atlas of Southeast Asia and co-editor of Lexington and Kentucky's Inner Bluegrass Region . Kentucky State Geographer Karl Raitz, professor and current chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, is the editor of The National Road and co-author of Appalachia: A Gegional Geography . Gyula Pauer, former director of the Center for Cartography and Geographic Information at the University of Kentucky, has served as cartographer for numerous publications, including Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the U.S. Congress and The Himalayan Kingdoms.

"Surely one of the most intractable of modern social and economic problems is that of the depressed region. As economic changes sweep across the country inevitably certain geographic areas become stranded just as others receive unexpected and perhaps unearned benefits. In those areas put at a disadvantage--whether the cause is a waning natural resource, a shift in the location of markets, or some inability of business, labor, or government to adjust to change--distress is likely to be severe, and more severe the longer this condition persists. East Kentucky, the region under study in this book, is such a place, and has been for some years past."--preface.