In 1845, the Kentucky Legislature placed the Mare Creek farm of Tandy R. Stratton in Floyd County. It had been in Pike County since Pike was formed from Floyd in 1821. A strip separates the farm area from Floyd, forming an "island" in Pike that was reported to be the only instance in the U.S. Stratton's grandfather established the Stratton Settlement in 1796 at the mouth of Mare Creek and, with two others, directed the laying out of Prestonsburg in 1797.