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Welcome to Stokes ...

So far, we found very little information about Stokes. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Stokes to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Stokes, please Contact Us.

Stokes would have been located within present day Russell County<2>.



Google driving directions from your current location to Stokes (Patience, this may take a moment).

We aren't confident of the location of Stokes, so consider the above location to be an estimate.<3>


While we don't have a date for the founding of Stokes, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1890. The community was inundated by Lake Cumberland.

Time Zone: The area where Stokes was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you leave Stokes and travel south, you will soon leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

The Area Codes where Stokes was located: 270 & 364<4>

Communities Also Named Stokes ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 20 communities that are also named Stokes - they are located in Alabama (2), Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi (2), New York, North Carolina (3), Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina (4), Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin.

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

Communities near Stokes ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Stokes to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Stokes was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7>

From that list, the Stokes post office opened in 1890.

We also found Stokes in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Stokes.

The official website for State of Kentucky: https://kentucky.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Stokes, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Russell, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>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 Stokes area will be assigned with one of these codes: 270 or 364. As a result, placing a call in the Stokes area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<7>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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