Snapshot, Pulaski County, Kentucky 2019-2020 | Page 34

tourism
Lake Cumberland
Demographics
Lake Cumberland, known as the houseboat
capital of the world, is a reservoir in Clinton,
Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Russell, and Wayne
counties in Kentucky.
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The primary reasons for its construction were
a means for flood control and the production of
hydroelectric power.
Its shoreline measures 1,255 miles (2,020 km)
2019-2020 Pulaski County snapshot l a special publication of the Commonwealth Journal