Dry Fork, Kentucky

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Dry Fork
Unincorporated community
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Dry Fork
Location within the state of Kentucky
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Dry Fork
Dry Fork (the United States)
Coordinates: 36°48′55″N85°55′29″W / 36.81528°N 85.92472°W / 36.81528; -85.92472
Country Flag of the United States.svg United States
State Flag of Kentucky.svg Kentucky
County Barren
Elevation
820 ft (250 m)
Time zone UTC−6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC−5 (CDT)
ZIP codes
42123
GNIS feature ID507876 [1]

Dry Fork (or Dryfork) is a rural unincorporated community in southern Barren County, Kentucky, United States. [1] [2] Dry Fork is named for one of three forks of a local creek, which went dry in summer, located about "half a mile below Blue Spring at the Jacob Dillon old place". [3] Dry Fork had a post office from 1848 to 1943. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dry Fork". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ "Dry Fork Populated Place Profile / Barren County, Kentucky Data". kentucky.hometownlocator.com. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Barren County Names Traced". The Glasgow Daily Times. November 14, 1965. p. 53. Retrieved January 25, 2026.
  4. ↑ "Area post offices trace long service". The Glasgow Daily Times. March 14, 1991. p. 15. Retrieved January 25, 2026.


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