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Do you know of Ripyville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ripyville. 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 Ripyville.<1>

Our sources for Ripyville (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 Ripyville other than they indicate that Ripyville would be found somewhere in Anderson County, Kentucky.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1867 and closed  in 1905.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ripyville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Ripyville.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 21/65460   (Place Name: Ripyville)

County: Anderson     (FIPS State/County: 21/005)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Ripyville) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Anderson County ...

Can you help?

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 Anderson County.

Antioch 
 Orr
Camdenville 
CoraPetty
  
HettieRough And Ready
Hooppole 
 Stinnett
Leather's Store 
 Vandyke
Murphy 
 Young's High Bridge
Nevins 

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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