Welcome to Barnrock ...

Barnrock is located in Johnson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Barnrock, you might consider that their post office opened in 1909.

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

Area Code for Barnrock: 606

Adding Barnrock to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Barnrock 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 for Barnrock was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Barnrock post office opened in 1909.

We also found Barnrock on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Barnrock.

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>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/