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. 34 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