Business View Magazine | August 2020

242 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2020 RUSSELL COUNTY, KENTUCKY R ussell County, Kentucky is located in the south central portion of the Bluegrass State, with a population of approximately, 17,800. Its two major cities are Jamestown, the county seat, founded in 1825, and Russell Springs, which was incorporated in 1936. Russell County is known as the Gateway to Lake Cumberland, one of the largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi, created by the impoundment of the Cumberland River by Wolf Creek Dam by the U.S Army Corps of Engineers in 1952. Lake Cumberland is of great economic importance to Russell County and its tourism industry. Each year, millions of visitors enjoy recreational fishing and boating along its 1,317 miles of shoreline and five major marinas, while pumping $57 million into the local coffers. Also important to the County’s economy is the Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery. Constructed in 1975, the Hatchery produces approximately one million brown, brook, cutthroat, and rainbow trout, annually, which are then stocked into over 100 different public fishing waters in Kentucky and Indiana. A diversified future