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Welcome to Star Mills ...

Star Mills is located in Hardin County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Star Mills, you might consider that their post office opened in 1893.

A typical abbreviation for Star Mills: Star Mls. (or less commonly used: Star Mlls.)

Star Mills is 640 feet [195 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Star Mills lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel west from Star Mills (for example, toward Fordsville), you will soon leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

Area Codes for Star Mills: 270 & 364<3>

Communities Also Named Star Mills ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Star Mills - it's located in Georgia.

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

Communities near Star Mills ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Star Mills ...

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

Adding Star Mills to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Star Mills post office opened in 1893. The Star Mills post office closed in 1895.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Star Mills.

Footnotes ...

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