Do you know of Raccoon Bend ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Raccoon Bend. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Raccoon Bend.

Our sources for Raccoon Bend (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Raccoon Bend other than they indicate that Raccoon Bend would be found somewhere in Laurel County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1875 and closed  in 1895.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Raccoon Bend ...

We found one communities that share the name Raccoon Bend.

Within Kentucky, the name Raccoon Bend is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Raccoon Bend in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Texas
    • Austin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Raccoon Bend [Austin County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Raccoon Bend ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Raccoon Bend:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Raccoon Bend - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Laurel County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Laurel County.