Census Data for Happy Top
Although we found mention of Happy Top during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Over time, we expect to discover additional information that will be added to our Gazetteer..
As far as we can tell, Happy Top has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for Happy Top, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Clay City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Stanton
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Irvine
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Ravenna
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Camargo
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Camargo is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camargo
- Jeffersonville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Mount Sterling
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Winchester
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Frenchburg
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Richmond
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Beattyville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Campton
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
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- North Middletown
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- North Middletown is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Middletown
- Owingsville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Berea
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Powell County ...
Happy Top is located in Powell County<3>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Powell County.
Miscellaneous Information for Happy Top ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Powell County or the community of Happy Top:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Happy Top:
- GNIS ID for Happy Top: 2420704
- GNIS ID for Powell County: 516945
- GNIS ID for State of Kentucky: 1779786
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Happy Top is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #6 (the East South-Central Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Happy Top.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Happy Top and then turned west". While Happy Top could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Happy Top as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Happy Top 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.
Just in case there has been confusion between counties, we found that there are two Kentucky communities named Happy Top: This one is located in Powell County and the other is located in Estill County. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Happy Top. |
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| <3> | If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Powell, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |