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Do you know of Head of Grassy ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Head of Grassy. 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 Head of Grassy.

Our sources for Head of Grassy (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Head of Grassy other than they indicate that Head of Grassy would be found somewhere in Lewis County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1878 and closed  in 1984.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Head of Grassy ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Head of Grassy:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Head of Grassy - 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 Head of Grassy.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 21/35452   (Place Name: Head of Grassy)

County: Lewis     (FIPS State/County: 21/135)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Head of Grassy) 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  Lewis County ...

Can you help?

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 Lewis County.

Alburn 
AlpenaNoah
  
Esculapia SpringsRandville
 Randyville
FairviewRock Creek
FearisRome
Fruit 
 Stone City
Glenn 
 Teutonia
HaseltonTharp
HeseltonThor
HildaTrace
 Trotter
Kinney 
 Upper Tygart
Manchester 
MarineValley
Martin 
McKenzieWadsworth
Mouth of Laurel 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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