Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 444 square miles (1,150 km 2), of which 440 square miles (1,100 km 2) is land and 3.7 square miles (9.6 km 2) (0.8%) is water. Pike County was the site of the Pike County Massacre where eight members of the Rhoden family were shot and killed the evening of April 21–22, 2016. Pike County was organized on February 1, 1815, from portions of Scioto, Ross, and Adams Counties, and was named in honor of Zebulon Pike, the explorer and soldier who had recently been killed in the War of 1812. The county is named for explorer Zebulon Pike. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,088. Pike County is a county located in the Appalachian (southern) region of the U.S.
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