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Welcome to Patesville ...

Patesville is located in Hancock County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Patesville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1865.

Patesville is 480 feet [146 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Note: If you travel east from Patesville (for example, toward Vine Grove), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

Area Codes for Patesville: 270 & 364<3>

Communities Also Named Patesville ...

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

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

Communities near Patesville ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Patesville ...

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

Adding Patesville to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Patesville post office opened in 1865. The Patesville post office closed in 1966.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Patesville.

Footnotes ...

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