Do you know of Colly ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Colly. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Colly.
Our sources for Colly (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Colly other than they indicate that Colly would be found somewhere in Letcher County, Kentucky.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Colly ...
We found one communities that share the name Colly.
Within Kentucky, the name Colly is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Colly in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- North Carolina
- Bladen County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Colly [Bladen County].
- North Carolina
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Colly ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Colly:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Colly - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Colly.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 21/16642 (Place Name: Colly)
County: Letcher (FIPS State/County: 21/133)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Colly) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Letcher County ...
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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Letcher County.