Do you know of Shippingport ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Shippingport. 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 Shippingport.<1> We found mention of Shippingport as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Jefferson County, Kentucky. It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2> From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1819 and closed in 1839. Communities Also Named Shippingport ...We found one communities that share the name Shippingport. Within Kentucky, the name Shippingport is unique. Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Shippingport in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shippingport ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Shippingport: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3> More Orphans in Jefferson 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 Jefferson County. Footnotes ...
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