Williamsburg, Kentucky Williamsburg, Kentucky Williamsburg is a home rule-class town/city in and the governmental center of county of Whitley County, Kentucky, United States. The populace was 5,245 at the 2010 census.

Williamsburg was first known as the Spring Ford after a close-by ford crossing the Cumberland River.

On 19 April 1818 the first meeting of the Whitley County Court was held at Samuel Cox's own home. This first court appointed small-town officials as well as constables to work with the county militia.

The Williamsburg school fitness was established in 1909 when the town voted to consolidate the multiple single-room schools in the region into one unified school district. This building would be finished by fire in 1926 and rebuilt into what would eventually be remodeled into the Anderson Building presently in use by the University of the Cumberlands.

Finally, in 2011 the courthouse was moved to the newly constructed Whitley County Judicial Center positioned adjoining to the old courthouse. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.8 square miles (12 km2), of which 4.7 square miles (12 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (2.10%) is water.

Williamsburg is home to the Kentucky Splash Waterpark (located inside the Hal Rogers Family Entertainment Center).

Williamsburg is positioned 18 miles (29 km) away Cumberland Falls State Resort Park inside the Daniel Boone National Forest.

The park is the home of Cumberland Falls, sometimes called the Little Niagara, the Niagara of the South or the Great Falls and is the only venue in the Western Hemisphere where a moonbow or lunar rainbow is regularly visible on a clear evening with a full moon. On average the falls, which flow over a resistant sandstone bed, are 68 feet (21 m) high and 125 feet (38 m) wide, with an average water flow of 3,600 cubic feet (100 m3) per second (100 m /s).Trails winding downstream from the park on either side of the river lead to the lesser Angel Falls and Dog Slaughter Falls.

Angel Falls is positioned 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the park on the Mc - Creary County side and Dog Slaughter Falls is positioned 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from the park on the Whitley County side.

Williamsburg is positioned 20 minutes away from the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River, a primary tributary of the Cumberland River fitness and a class 3-4 whitewater canoeing and kayaking stream.

Williamsburg is also home to one of the number one bluegrass celebrations in the state of Kentucky (the Sally Gap Bluegrass Festival).

Other affairs are the Jeep Jamboree (an off-road sporting event), and the Border Bowl, an annual event for two squads of high school footballers representing Kentucky and Tennessee.

As of the 2000 census Whitley County, Kentucky of which Williamsburg is the governmental center of county consisted of 22,645 Evangelical Christians, 1,741 Mainline Christians, 130 Catholics, and 11,394 individuals who are not members of the 188 groups encompassed in the Churches & Church Membership Data.

As of the same date 69.4% of individuals in Whitley County were members of the Southern Baptist Convention. Williamsburg boasts 21 theological institutions or one theological institution per 243 people, and as of the year 2000 the region that contains the town has been designated the second most populated region of the bible belt. University of the Cumberlands, positioned in the town is a private Christian college affiliated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention, a member of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Whitley County School System In the city, the populace was spread out with 19.5% under the age of 18, 24.9% from 18 to 24, 22.2% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 15.0% who were 65 years of age or older.

Whitley County Schools The county school precinct serves the county outside of the town/city of Williamsburg, however, its central ground is only a mile outside the town/city limits.

Whitley County High School (Grades 9-12) Whitley County Middle School (Grades 7-8) Whitley County Central Primary School (Grades Pre-K-2) Williamsburg Independent Schools Serves the town/city of Williamsburg with a single K-12 school.

Williamsburg Independent School District In addition, Corbin Education Center serves as an alternative school for students in the Corbin, Williamsburg, and Whitley County school districts. University of the Cumberlands marker off of Main Street, in Williamsburg, Kentucky The ground of the University of the Cumberlands (formerly Cumberland College) is positioned on College Hill adjoining to the downtown region of Williamsburg.

The school is affiliated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention (the Kentucky partner of the Southern Baptist Convention), and the school's sports squads participate in the NAIA.

Henry Bond, political activist and principal and schoolteacher at the Williamsburg School for Negros Combs, 50th Kentucky governor and University of the Cumberlands alumni According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Williamsburg has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Kentucky Secretary of State-Land Office Retrieved on 2010-06-19 History of Williamsburg Retrieved on 2010-06-19 "History of Williamsburg City Government".

"History of Williamsburg City School".

Williamsburg, KY Quick Facts "Kentucky Splash Waterpark".

Williamsburg, KY - Religious History "Williamsburg, Kentucky Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".

Official website of Williamsburg, Kentucky Williamsburg Independent Schools Municipalities and communities of Whitley County, Kentucky, United States County seats in Kentucky

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