Ravenna, Kentucky

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Weather in:
Ravenna

Partly Cloudy
Temperature: 31.0 °F

Humidity: 95 %
Wind Speed: 0 mph W
Pressure: 29.59 "

Dew Point: 30 °F
Gusts: 0 mph SSW
Rain Today: 0.00 "

• United American Opens Field HQ In Ravenna, KY
  

  Privately held United American Energy Corp. has opened a field headquarters in Ravenna, Ky.

• Driver leads police on two-county chase
  

  An allegedly intoxicated Ravenna man led police on a chase through two counties before he was stopped by police maneuvering and pepper spray.

City Description

Ravenna is a city in Estill County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 693 at the 2000 census. In 2008, Ravenna will conduct an exclusive Ravenna Railroad Festival, its first festival in 50 years. Ravenna is located at 37°41′9″N 83°57′5″W / 37.68583, -83.95139 (37.685772, -83.951399). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.4 square miles (1.0 km²), all of it land. Ravenna, A True Railroad Town Before it was incorporated, Ravenna was known only as "The Village". The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company (L & N) was responsible for the name of Ravenna, the building of the Shops, Yard, Office Building, Passenger & Freight Station, and many other things that were built for the establishment of a railroad terminal in Estill County just east of the county seat Irvine, Kentucky. After the completion of the terminal in 1915, the county decided it would call it Ravenna which stems from the word "Ravine" but it was reported by early railroad officials that an Italian foreman and interpreter with a construction crew of approximately 60 Italian men building the railroad yards, requested that the railroad officials name the station in honor of

City Contained By:

• United States
• Kentucky
• Estill County

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 1.03599524413 km squared

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