Do you know of Lost Run ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lost Run. 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 Lost Run.

Our sources for Lost Run (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 Lost Run other than they indicate that Lost Run would be found somewhere in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1854 and closed  in 1893.

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 Lost Run ...

We found one communities that share the name Lost Run.

Within Kentucky, the name Lost Run is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Lost Run in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Ohio
    • Hocking County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lost Run [Hocking County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lost Run ...

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

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 Lost Run - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Breckinridge 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 Breckinridge County.