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Welcome to Ready ...

Ready is located in Grayson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Ready, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

Ready is 550 feet [168 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

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

Area Codes for Ready: 270 & 364<3>

Communities near Ready ...

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

  • Leitchfield
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Morgantown
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Clarkson
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Brownsville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Caneyville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Woodbury
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Woodbury is located in Butler County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodbury
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 88 people
  • Shrewsbury
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Shrewsbury is located in Grayson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shrewsbury
  • Welch's Creek
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Welch's Creek is located in Butler County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welch's Creek
  • Spring Lick
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Spring Lick is located in Grayson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Lick
  • Millwood
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Millwood is located in Grayson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millwood

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Ready ...

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

Adding Ready to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Ready post office opened in 1884. The Ready post office closed in 1974.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Ready.

Footnotes ...

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