Cumberland Mountains

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Cumberland Mountains

A range of the Appalachian Mountains extending about 210 km (130 mi) from the Kentucky-Virginia border to central Tennessee and rising to about 1,200 m (3,900 ft). The Cumberlands sit on the eastern edge of the Cumberland Plateau, an upland area comprising the southern section of the Appalachian Plateau.

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Cum′berland Moun′tains

n.pl.

a plateau largely in Kentucky and Tennessee, a part of the Appalachian Mountains: highest point, ab. 4000 ft. (1220 m). Also called Cum′berland Plateau′.

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Cumberland Mountains - the southwestern part of the Appalachians

Cumberland Plateau

Appalachian Mountains, Appalachians - a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States

Cumberland Gap - a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west

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Powel's and Walden's, and were approaching Cumberland mountain when this adverse fortune overtook us.

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A new species of millipede has been discovered on the forest floor of Cumberland Mountains, and it is noteworthy for two completely different reasons.

Toxic Millipede Comes In 6 Color Combinations

Admitted to The Florida Bar in 1979, the University of Florida grad spent most of his career in Central Florida but now lives in the Cumberland Mountains in rural southwest Virginia.

Bar's virtual advice clinic is going strong

The purchase opened a vast territory (composed of all the land between the Cumberland River, the Cumberland Mountains and the Kentucky River, situated south of the Ohio River) to an adventurous group that included the legendary Daniel Boone.

Cruising the Cumberland River: spring ushers in an exciting boating season with a timeless cruise that pairs the South's historical past with its vibrant present

Norris Dam State Park is located near the merging of the RV and the Cumberland Mountains. This area is sometimes considered part of the CP but is also sometimes regarded as its own physiographic/ecoregion.

Land mollusca of Norris Dam State Park with notes on Cumberland Plateau and Blue Ridge affinities

In 2002,I got a call from a minister in McRoberts, which is a small coal town located in the Cumberland mountains in eastern Kentucky.

Witness to Appalachian apocalypse: coal mining process blasts the tops off mountains

The group is joining with the United Mountain Defense, the Save our Cumberland Mountains group, Southern Energy Network and the Sierra Student Coalition to help the fight.

Trading bikinis for green: embarking on a new kind of Spring Break

More unexpected was that coal mining in the Cumberland Mountains had created an abundance of suitable breeding habitat for the bird.

Off course

Larry Bush of Save Our Cumberland Mountains was also a coal miner in southwestern Virginia.

Once there was a mountain: ravaging West Virginia for "clean coal"

Our valley is enclosed by the Cumberland Mountains to the west and the Great Smoky Mountains to the east.

Plant life

It all starts when Hannah's father decides to join the Yankees to fight, leaving behind his struggling family to fend for themselves on their little farm in the Cumberland mountains. Life is hard enough for them, but when Hannah's mother dies, all the responsibility falls on 15-year-old Hannah.