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Welcome to Point Leavell ...

Point Leavell is located in Garrard County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Point Leavell, you might consider that their post office opened in 1887.

A typical abbreviation for Point Leavell: Pt. Leavell

Point Leavell is 930 feet [283 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

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

Area Code for Point Leavell: 859

Communities near Point Leavell ...

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

  • Richmond
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Danville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Berea
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Berea is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berea
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 16,287 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Berea <3>
  • Lancaster
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Stanford
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Mount Vernon
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Junction City
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Brodhead
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Burgin
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Crab Orchard
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Point Leavell ...

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

Adding Point Leavell to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Point Leavell 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 Point Leavell was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Point Leavell post office opened in 1887. The Point Leavell post office closed in 1912.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Point Leavell.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Garrard, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Point Leavell - 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>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/