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Welcome to Lacey ...

Lacey is located in Magoffin County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Lacey, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1909.

Lacey is 830 feet [253 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Note: If you leave Lacey and travel west, you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

Area Code for Lacey: 606

Communities Also Named Lacey ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 9 communities that are also named Lacey - they are located in Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Virginia and Washington.

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

Communities near Lacey ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Lacey ...

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

Adding Lacey to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Lacey 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 for Lacey was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Lacey post office opened in 1909.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Lacey.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Magoffin, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Lacey - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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