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Welcome to Bluff Spring ...

Bluff Spring is located in Christian County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bluff Spring, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1906.

A typical abbreviation for Bluff Spring: Bluff Spg. (or less commonly used: Bluff Spng. or Bluff Sprng.)

Bluff Spring is 570 feet [174 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Bluff Spring lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Bluff Spring: 270 & 364<3>

Communities Also Named Bluff Spring ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Bluff Spring - it's located in Kansas.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Bluff Spring.

Communities near Bluff Spring ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Bluff Spring.

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 Bluff Spring. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Bluff Spring.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Bluff Spring. 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 Bluff Spring.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Bluff Spring ...

Looking for more information about Bluff Spring? 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 Bluff Spring, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Bluff Spring.

Adding Bluff Spring to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Bluff Spring 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 Bluff Spring was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Bluff Spring post office opened in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bluff Spring.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Christian, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Bluff Spring - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 270 code has been Overlayed with the 364 area code. New phone numbers in the Bluff Spring area will be assigned with one of these codes: 270 or 364. As a result, placing a call in the Bluff Spring area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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