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Welcome to Barnetts Creek ...

Barnetts Creek is located in Johnson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Barnetts Creek, you might consider that their post office opened in 1879.

A typical abbreviation for Barnetts Creek: Barnetts Crk. (or less commonly used: Barnetts Ck. or Barnetts Cr.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Barnetts Creek for more information about variations on the name of Barnetts Creek.

Barnetts Creek is 630 feet [192 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Barnetts Creek lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you leave Barnetts Creek and travel west, you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

Area Code for Barnetts Creek: 606

Communities near Barnetts Creek ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Barnetts Creek.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Barnetts Creek. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Barnetts Creek.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Barnetts Creek. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Barnetts Creek.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Barnetts Creek. See our Newspapers Page for Barnetts Creek.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Barnetts Creek ...

Looking for more information about Barnetts Creek? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Barnetts Creek, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Barnetts Creek.

Adding Barnetts Creek to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Barnetts Creek in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Barnetts Creek was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Barnetts Creek post office opened in 1879. The Barnetts Creek post office closed in 1980.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Barnetts Creek.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Johnson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Barnetts Creek - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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