Echols, Kentucky

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Echols
Unincorporated community
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Echols
Location within the state of Kentucky
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Echols
Echols (the United States)
Coordinates: 37°20′1″N86°57′51″W / 37.33361°N 86.96417°W / 37.33361; -86.96417
Country United States
State Kentucky
County Ohio
Elevation
531 ft (162 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID507905 [1]

Echols is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Ohio County, Kentucky, United States. It was also known as Pink Hall.

The town extends north from Paradise, and also north from the Peabody Wildlife Management which used to be coal mines.

Echols was established as a coal town in 1874 and named for the mine owner. [2]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Echols, Kentucky
  2. ↑ Rennick, Robert M. (1987). Kentucky Place Names. University Press of Kentucky. p. 89. ISBN   0813126312 . Retrieved April 28, 2013.


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