Kentucky Bend
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The Kentucky Bend, variously called the New Madrid Bend, Madrid Bend, Bessie Bend, or Bubbleland, is an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky that is encircled by the states of Tennessee and Missouri. Th
Kentucky Bend cemetery
State line between the Kentucky Bend and Route 22 in Tennessee.
Front stone for the Madrid Bend families' cemetery (known in official registries as Whitson Cemetery)
New Madrid, Missouri
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New Madrid is a city in and the county seat of New Madrid County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,787 at the 2020 census. The city is located 42 miles southwest of Cairo, Illinois, and n
Kentucky Bend
…the 2020 census, the population of the Kentucky Bend Census County Division was nine people. The mailing address of the area is Tiptonville, Tennessee. New Madrid, Missouri is directly across the river to the north, but it lacks connection to the bend by road or ferry. The closest crossings of the Mississippi River are the…
New Madrid, facing away from the Mississippi
Lithographic print made 1854 depicting New Madrid shore from the Mississippi