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Welcome to Flaherty ...

Flaherty is located in Meade County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Flaherty, you might consider that their post office opened in 1883.

Flaherty is 770 feet [235 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Flaherty lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel west from Flaherty (for example, toward Irvington), you will soon leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

Area Codes for Flaherty: 270 & 364<3>

Communities near Flaherty ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Flaherty ...

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

Adding Flaherty to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Flaherty 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 (so far) for Flaherty was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Flaherty post office opened in 1883. The Flaherty post office closed in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Flaherty.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Meade, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Flaherty - 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 Flaherty area will be assigned with one of these codes: 270 or 364. As a result, placing a call in the Flaherty 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>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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