Baskett, Kentucky | |
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  Baskett  Baskett | |
| Coordinates: 37°52′15″N87°27′45″W / 37.87083°N 87.46250°W Coordinates: 37°52′15″N87°27′45″W / 37.87083°N 87.46250°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kentucky |
| County | Henderson |
| Elevation | 400 ft (100 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CST) |
| ZIP codes | 42402 |
| GNIS feature ID | 486457 [1] |
Baskett is an unincorporated community and coal town in Henderson County, Kentucky, United States.
Baskett had its start in 1888 as a coal town. [2] The community was named for the Baskett family, the original owners of the town site. [2] A post office has been in operation at Baskett since 1890. [3]
Hopkins County is a county located in the western part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 46,920. Its county seat is Madisonville. The county was formed in 1806 and named for General Samuel Hopkins, an officer in both the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812, and later a Kentucky legislator and U.S. Congressman.
Henderson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 46,250. The county seat is Henderson. The county was formed in 1798 and named for Colonel Richard Henderson who purchased 17,000,000 acres (69,000 km2) of land from the Cherokee Indians, part of which would eventually make up the county.
Henderson is a home rule-class city along the Ohio River in Henderson County in western Kentucky in the United States. The population was 28,757 at the 2010 U.S. census. It is part of the Evansville Metropolitan Area, locally known as the "Tri-State Area". It is considered the southernmost suburb of Evansville, Indiana.
Earlington is a home rule-class city in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 1,413, down from 1,649 at the 2000 census.
The West Kentucky Coal Field comprises an area in the west-central and northwestern part of the state, bounded by the Dripping Springs Escarpment and the Pennyroyal Plateau and the Ohio River, but is part of the Illinois Basin that extends into Indiana and Illinois. It is characterized by Pennsylvanian age sandstones, shales and coal. Nearly all of the counties in the area are part of the television market known as the Kentucky–Illinois–Indiana tri-state area.
Spottsville is a census-designated place (CDP) and former coal town in Henderson County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 325.
Jonancy is a small unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky, United States, in the far eastern part of the state. The latitude and longitude are 37.316N and -82.583W. Jonancy is in the Eastern Coal Field region. The community is in the Eastern time zone.
Stone is an unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. It was established in 1912. Stone was a mining community named for Galen Stone, head of the Pond Creek Coal Company which was based in Stone. In 1922 the Pond Creek Coal Company was sold to Fordson Coal Company, which was a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. In 1936 Fordson sold the mine at Stone to Eastern Coal Company.
Blue Heron, also known as Mine 18, is a former coal mining community or coal town on the banks of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States, that has been recreated and is maintained as an interpretive history area in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.
Hi Hat is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. Their post office is still open.
New Alma Coal Camp was an unincorporated community and coal town located in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
Aflex is an unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
Hardburly is an unincorporated community and coal town in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
Cromona is a small unincorporated community located in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The Cromona post office has operated since 1916. Cromona is actually known as Haymond by the local residents. However, for reasons that are obscure, the post office was given a different name, Cromona. It was built as a coal town in 1916, and was named for the president of the Elk Horn Coal Corporation, Thomas S. Haymond. The population of Haymond was 502 as of the 2010 census.
Hellier is an unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
Allegheny was an unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. The coal works are no longer active and the site of the former community is now a ghost town.
Garrett is an unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
Smith Mills is an unincorporated community and coal town in Henderson County, Kentucky, United States. Their post office opened in May 1820.
Closplint is an unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The settlement was named Cloversplint after the seam of coal and the mining company that built it as a coal town in 1926 , and operated there between 1928 and 1946 . When the United States Postal Service established a post office, the name was shortened to Closplint.
Fourseam is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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