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Ecoregions of Kentucky

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Name	†	Color on Map
Pre-Wisconsinan Drift Plains	○
Monongahela Transition Zone	…
Dissected Appalachian Plateau	✓
Knobs-Lower Scioto Dissected Plateau	○
Caseyville Hills	○
Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau	○
St. Francis Lowlands	○
Northern Holocene Meander Belts	○
Southern Sandstone Ridges	✓
Outer Nashville Basin	○
Hills of the Bluegrass	○
Cumberland Plateau	○
Plateau Escarpment	✓
Cumberland Mountain Thrust Block	✓
Northern Forested Plateau Escarpment	○
Inner Bluegrass	✓
Carter Hills	○
Northern Shawnee Hills	○
Crawford-Mammoth Cave Uplands	✓
Southern Shawnee Hills	○
Mitchell Plain	✓
Knobs-Norman Upland	○
Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands	○
Outer Bluegrass	○
Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands	○
Western Pennyroyal Karst Plain	○
Western Highland Rim	○
Eastern Highland Rim	○
Bluff Hills	○
Loess Plains	○

† Status: ✓ = Complete ○ = Needs Image … = Incomplete ∅ = Stub Only

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Partially Complete

97%

With Images

27%

Complete w/ Images

23%

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