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Welcome to Poverty ...

Poverty is located in McLean County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Poverty, you might consider that their post office opened in 1902.

Poverty is 400 feet [122 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

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

Area Codes for Poverty: 270 & 364<3>

Communities Also Named Poverty ...

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

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

Communities near Poverty ...

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

  • Owensboro
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Madisonville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Sebree
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Livermore
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Calhoun
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Calhoun is located in McLean County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calhoun
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 723 people
    • Former names for Calhoun:
    • Calhoon
    • Fort Vienna
    • Vienna Station
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Calhoun <4>
  • Hanson
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Robards
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Island
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Sacramento
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Slaughters
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Slaughters is located in Webster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slaughters
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 206 people

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Poverty ...

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

Adding Poverty to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Poverty post office opened in 1902. The Poverty post office closed in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Poverty.

Footnotes ...

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