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Welcome to Scale ...

Scale is located in Marshall County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Scale, you might consider that their post office opened in 1882.

Scale is 460 feet [140 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Scale: 270 & 364<3>

Communities Also Named Scale ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Scale - it's located in New Brunswick.

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

Websites for Scale ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.marshallcounty.net/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Scale, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Scale ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Scale ...

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

Adding Scale to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Scale post office opened in 1882. The Scale post office closed in 1905.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Scale.

Footnotes ...

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