Jenkins is a home rule-class city in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,203 as of the 2010 census.
Downtown Jenkins
Coal camp houses in Jenkins during the Great Depression
Letcher County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,548. Its county seat is Whitesburg. It was created in 1842 from Harlan and Perry counties, and named for Robert P. Letcher, Governor of Kentucky from 1840 to 1844.
Letcher County courthouse in Whitesburg
Mose Adams log cabin, where the first court session was held in 1842
The third courthouse built by Lemuel R. Perry in 1898 and existed until the 1960s
The current Letcher County Courthouse, remodeled in 1998. The bell at the front was the same one that was used to call the court into session in the old courthouse