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Welcome to Trigg Furnace ...

Trigg Furnace is located in Trigg County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Trigg Furnace, you might consider that their post office opened in 1871.

Trigg Furnace is 380 feet [116 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Trigg Furnace: 270 & 364<3>

Communities near Trigg Furnace ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Trigg Furnace ...

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

Adding Trigg Furnace to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Trigg Furnace post office opened in 1871. The Trigg Furnace post office closed in 1915.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Trigg Furnace.

Footnotes ...

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