Do you know of Dripping Spring ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dripping Spring. 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 Dripping Spring.

We found mention of Dripping Spring as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Edmonson County, Kentucky.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

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 Dripping Spring ...

We found two communities that share the name Dripping Spring.

Within Kentucky, the name Dripping Spring is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Missouri
  - Boone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Dripping Spring [Boone County].
  - Franklin 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 Missouri community of Dripping Spring [Franklin County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dripping Spring ...

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

The FIPS database contains an entry for Dripping Spring.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 21/22438 (Place Name: Dripping Spring)

County: Edmonson (FIPS State/County: 21/061)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Dripping Spring) 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 Edmonson 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 Edmonson County.

Cedar Bluff Mills	Goff
Chalybeate Springs	Grassland
Chameleon
Cloud	Jock

Demunbruns Store	Marcellus
Dickey's Mills
	Proctors Cave
Fairview
	Rocky Hill Station

Footnotes ...

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Dripping Spring 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.