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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Callihan. 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 Callihan.<1>

Our source wasn't clear whether Callihan was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Callihan would be found somewhere in Harlan County, Kentucky.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Callihan ...

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Callihan.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 21/11962   (Place Name: Callihan)

County: Harlan     (FIPS State/County: 21/095)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Callihan) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Harlan County ...

Can you help?

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 Harlan County.

Ages - Brookside 
AkersImlay
AvondaleIncline
  
BaileyJane
BeechJones
Bennett 
BlantonKaren
 Kay
CassidyKellioka
CatoKlondike
Charlotte 
Clover ForkLeadford
Clover LeafLedford
Cloverlick JunctionLejunior
CoalgoodLeonard
CornettLewis
CoteLibby
 Low
DarbyLupton
Darbyton 
DayMerna
Dayhoit 
DenisonNeubert
Dixie 
 Piedmont
EmerlingPillsbury
EstPoor Fork
 Popeville
Fulkerson 
 Red Raven
GaynorRosebud
GekayRue
Glenbrook 
GliddenSalts
GolvaSanborn
Grays KnobScot
Guffey 
GulstonWallins
  
HarcrowYocum Creek
HiloYowell
Hurricane Gap 

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.