Do you know of Pine Knot ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pine Knot. 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 Pine Knot.

Our sources for Pine Knot (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 Pine Knot other than they indicate that Pine Knot would be found somewhere in Whitley County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1874 and closed  in 1878.

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 Pine Knot ...

We found two communities that share the name Pine Knot.

There is one other community in Kentucky which is also named Pine Knot.

Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Pine Knot in the United States.

• Communities Located In Kentucky ...
  • McCreary County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pine Knot [McCreary County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Greene County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Pine Knot [Greene County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pine Knot ...

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

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 Pine Knot - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

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

More Orphans in  Whitley 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 Whitley County.