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Welcome to Long Bottom ...

Long Bottom is located in Russell County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Long Bottom, you might consider that their post office opened in 1939.

Long Bottom is 580 feet [177 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Note: If you travel east from Long Bottom (for example, toward Monticello), you will soon leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

Area Codes for Long Bottom: 270 & 364<3>

Communities Also Named Long Bottom ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Long Bottom - they are located in Ohio and West Virginia.

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

Communities near Long Bottom ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Long Bottom ...

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

Adding Long Bottom to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Long Bottom post office opened in 1939. The Long Bottom post office closed in 1955.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Long Bottom.

Footnotes ...

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