Do you know of Denmark ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Denmark. 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 Denmark.
Our sources for Denmark (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 Denmark other than they indicate that Denmark would be found somewhere in Russell County, Kentucky.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1883 and closed in 1929.
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 Denmark ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Denmark.
Within Kentucky, the name Denmark is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 26 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Denmark [Jackson County].
- Georgia
- Bulloch County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Denmark [Bulloch County].
- Crawford County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Denmark [Crawford County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Denmark [Lee County].
- Kansas
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Denmark [Lincoln County].
- Maine
- Oxford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Denmark [Oxford County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Lafayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Denmark [Lafayette County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Denmark.
- Ohio
- Ashtabula County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Denmark [Ashtabula County].
- Morrow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Denmark [Morrow County].
- Williams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Denmark [Williams County].
- Oregon
- Curry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Denmark [Curry County].
- South Carolina
- Bamberg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Denmark [Bamberg County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Anderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Denmark [Anderson County].
- Virginia
- Rockbridge County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Denmark [Rockbridge County].
- Wisconsin
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Denmark [Brown County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Denmark ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Denmark:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Denmark - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Denmark.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 21/21052 (Place Name: Denmark)
County: Russell (FIPS State/County: 21/207)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Denmark) 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 Russell 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 Russell County.
| Beckamridge | Kavito |
| Brady | Kendall |
| Kimble | |
| Catherine | |
| Longstreet | |
| Dallo | |
| Dent | Millersville |
| Effie | Owensby |
| Eller | |
| Royalton | |
| Horse Shoe Bottom | |
| Sunshine | |
| Irvins Store | |
| Ucum | |
| Jay | |
| Wesley |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Denmark could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |