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Do you know of Johnson Junction ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Johnson Junction. 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 Johnson Junction.

Our sources for Johnson Junction (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 Johnson Junction other than they indicate that Johnson Junction would be found somewhere in Fleming County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 and closed  in 1944.

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 Johnson Junction ...

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

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 Johnson Junction - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Johnson Junction.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 21/40852   (Place Name: Johnson Junction)

County: Fleming     (FIPS State/County: 21/069)

Class: X3

More Orphans in  Fleming 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 Fleming County.

AcmeNisi
  
BalmOak Woods
Big RunOtho
Bowman 
 Pecksridge
Crain's 
 Ringos Mills
Franklin's Mills 
 Sandford
JohnsonSapp
 Sutton
Martha Mills 
 White Oak Hill

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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