Knox National Forest was established in Kentucky by the U.S. Forest Service on June 5, 1925, with from part of the Camp Knox Military Reservation. On April 6, 1928, the executive order for its creation was rescinded and the forest was abolished.
References
External links Forest History Society Listing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates (from the Forest History Society website) Text from Davis, Richard C., ed. Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company for the Forest History Society, 1983. Vol. II, pp. 743-788.