* Letcher County & Knott County ( southwest )

* Knott County ( northeast )

* Knott County ( south )

* Knott County ( northwest )

Knott County is a county located in the U. S. state of Kentucky.

The Knott County town of Pippa Passes is home to Alice Lloyd College.

Knott County and its surrounding counties are home to 5, 700 free ranging elk, the largest elk herd east of the Mississippi River.

Knott County tourism has expanded in recent years, with the opening of an ATV Training Center dedicated to the safety of ATV usage amongst riders and the Knott County Sportsplex, a sports complex dedicated to bringing athletic opportunities to people of all ages, through indoor basketball courts, outside baseball fields, a soccer field, and a fitness center.

* Knott County Campus of Hazard Community and Technical College

* Knott County Area Technology Center

* Knott County Central High School ( KCC )

Knott County has historically voted very strongly for the Democratic Party.

In 1992, 75 % of Knott County residents voted for Democrat Bill Clinton, the highest percentage for Clinton of any county in the state.

However, in recent years, Knott County has voted more favorably for the Republican Party.

In 2008, Republican John McCain became the first Republican to win Knott County in a presidential election by winning 55 % of the vote to Barack Obama's 44 %.

Thompson won re-election in 2006 and again in 2010, making him the first Republican to win election in a Knott County office.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Knott County, Kentucky

He attended the Knott County, Kentucky grade schools, Hindman High School, Caney Junior College ( now Alice Lloyd College ), Lees Junior College-Now the Lees Campus of Hazard Community College and graduated from Jefferson School of Law ( now the University of Louisville School of Law ) in 1935.

He was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1940 and was then elected Knott County Attorney in 1941 and reelected in 1945.

Many notable legislators from across the country such as Senator Ted Kennedy, Speaker of the House Tip O ' Neill, and House Majority Leader Jim Wright and Congressman William H. Natcher among others came to his funeral which was held in Hindman, Kentucky at the Morton Combs Athletic Complex on the campus of Knott County Central High School.

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December 3, 1981, Walter Knott died, survived by his children who would continue to operate Knott's as a family business for another fourteen years.

The Knott's refused to sell the park to Disney out of fear that most of what Walter Knott had built would be eliminated.

In 1972, Knotts would voice an animated version of himself in two memorable episodes of The New Scooby Doo Movies ; one being " The Spooky Fog of Juneberry ", in which he played a lawman who bore a remarkable resemblance to Barney Fife, and the other being " Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner ".

On returning to England from exile in 1660, Charles II imported with him the latest new word in fashion: " A cravatte is another kind of adornment for the neck being nothing else but a long towel put about the Collar, and so tyed before with a Bow Knott ; this is the original of all such Wearings ; but now by the Art and Inventions of the seamsters, there is so many new ways of making them, that it would be a task to name, much more to describe them ".

However, the Knott family refused to sell its park to Disney, largely due to concerns over what Disney would do to the property, and the project was canceled again.

A conversion of Knott's Berry Farm ( in Buena Park, near Disneyland ) into Disney ’ s America was drafted shortly after the Knott family announced that they would take bids for its property.

The main factor was that the Knott family had rejected Disney's bid since they were afraid that the Imagineers would replace much of what their parents had origially built.

" He was known both for his acrobatic fielding behind the stumps, and his diligence and stamina, " he has been without peer in the world for some years and would clearly have graced the England team but for Alan Knott.

The screenplay and the stage play on which it was based were both written by English playwright Frederick Knott, whose work often focused on women who innocently become the potential victims of sinister plots.

The Irish Exporters Association representative Mr Howard Knott announced at the Western Rail Corridor Conference on 1 May 2009 that two additional freight services from Mayo to North Wall in Dublin will become operational from County Mayo in the coming months.

In 1871, Knott made an unsuccessful bid to become governor of Kentucky, losing the Democratic nomination to Preston Leslie.

His friend Don West — a poet and civil rights activist, among other things — offered Still a job organizing recreation programs for a Bible school in Knott County, Kentucky.

Jenny Knott of The Times asked: " Why weren ’ t history books like this when I was a child?

* Stephen Knott ’ 79: Author and scholar, former co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia ’ s Miller Center of Public Affairs

The Knott family is linked to the Hall Family of Lighthouse Keepers via the marriage ( Holyhead 1877 ) of Henry Thomas Knott ( b. 1845 ) to Ellen Margaret Hall ( b. 1847 Dale, Pembs ) daughter of John Hall ( b. 1810 Dale, Pembs ) keeper of St. Ann ’ s Low Light.

The Knott family is linked to the Darling Family of Lighthouse Keepers via the marriage of Thomas Owen Hall ( b. Dale, Pembs 1840 ) ( Son of John Hall ( b. 1810 Dale, Pembs ) keeper of St. Ann ’ s Low Light ) to Grace Horsley Darling ( b. Bamburgh 1844 ) ( daughter of William Darling ( b. 1806 Bamburgh ) Keeper of Farne Island Lighthouse ) and niece of Grace Darling.

* ( See pages 167, ‘ Divine Light Mission ’ ( Kim Knott ), and 508, ‘ Radhasoami Movements ’, PierLuigi Zoccatelli.

The idea for the conversion reportedly came from the exact replica of Independence Hall, which sits in the parking lot of Knott ’ s Berry Farm.

The Carl D. Perkins Parkway stretches from Hazard, Kentucky through Carl D. Perkins home county of Knott county, Kentucky.

A similar work for US English was published in 1944 by Kenyon and Knott.

* Gary D. Knott ( 1974 ) A proposal for certain process management and intercommunication primitives ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review.

Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American thriller film adapted from a successful stage play by Frederick Knott, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, and Robert Cummings.

Daugherty's engineering credits include albums for Randy Stonehill, The Swoon, Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Prayer Chain, Riki Michele, The Waiting ( band ), Sarah Masen, Pierce Pettis, Common Children, Jeff Johnson, Caedmon's Call, Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, The Throes, and others.

The county is named for James Proctor Knott, Governor of Kentucky ( 1883 – 1887 ).

Walt Disney and Walter Knott are rumored to have had a cordial relationship ; it is known that they each visited the other's park, and they were both members of the original planning council for Children's Hospital of Orange County.

In 1968, the Knott family fenced the farm, charged admission for the first time, and Knott's Berry Farm officially became an amusement park.

In the First Test at Brisbane, Bill Lawry won the toss and decided to bat on a good wicket, but became Snow's 100th Test victim, caught by Alan Knott for 4.

India needed 183 to win in the fourth inningsSnow had the opener Ashok Mankad caught by Knott for 8 and India were 21-2 when Sunil Gavaskar was called for a quick single after hitting the ball to mid-wicket.

Walter Knott and his wife Cordelia, founders of Knott's Berry Farm, were homesteaded at Newberry Springs around this time, and Knott helped built the redwood cyanide tanks for the plant.

* Ty Knott, former assistant coach for the Poets.

The England keeper Alan Knott sometimes placed steaks inside his gloves for added cushioning.

The Sir James Knott Hall, catering for sports, theatrical and conference events is situated just across the college main entrance.

Lord Trevelyan arranged the grant from the Sir James Knott Trust that provided funding for the Sir James Knott Hall.

Knott and Tony Greig ran two overthrows before Andy Roberts, fielding at square-leg, retrieved the ball and threw it past the stumps at the bowler's end and over the long-off boundary for four more runs.

Knott was known for his idiosyncratic behaviour on the field.