High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pike County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2000, the population was 68,736. Its county seat is Pikeville. Pike is Kentucky's largest county in terms of land area. Pike County is the 11th largest county in Kentucky in terms of population preceded by Bullitt County and followed by Christian County. Pikeville is the 3rd largest banking center in the commonwealth and an estimated 100,000 people per day travel through the city. With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county?a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city, in this case Pikeville, where package alcohol sales are allowed.