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Welcome to Hebbardsville ...

Hebbardsville is located in Henderson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Hebbardsville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1840.

Hebbardsville is 420 feet [128 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Hebbardsville lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you leave Hebbardsville and travel east, you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

Area Codes for Hebbardsville: 270 & 364<3>

Communities Also Named Hebbardsville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Hebbardsville - it's located in Ohio.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Hebbardsville.

Communities near Hebbardsville ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Hebbardsville ...

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

Adding Hebbardsville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Hebbardsville 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 Hebbardsville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Hebbardsville post office opened in 1840. The Hebbardsville post office closed in 1973.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hebbardsville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Henderson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Hebbardsville - 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 Hebbardsville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 270 or 364. As a result, placing a call in the Hebbardsville 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/