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Do you know of Ernestville ???

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

Our sources for Ernestville (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Ernestville other than they indicate that Ernestville would be found somewhere in Owsley County, Kentucky.

Communities Also Named Ernestville ...

We found two communities that share the name Ernestville.

Within Kentucky, the name Ernestville is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Missouri
      • Lafayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ernestville [Lafayette County].
    • Tennessee
      • Unicoi County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ernestville [Unicoi County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ernestville ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ernestville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Owsley 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 Owsley County.

Botner 
Buck CreekGabbard
  
CortlandJoshua
  
DoorwayPosey
  
FloydTurin

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.









 

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