West Van Lear is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. Even though it is unincorporated, it has a post office and its own ZIP code (41268). It has a small grocery store, a volunteer fire department, and a community center.
Neatsville is an unincorporated community in Adair County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is located at the junction of Kentucky Route 206 and Kentucky Route 76. Its elevation is 705 feet (215 m). For unknown reasons, the town's name was spelled as Neetsville from 1876 until 1886, when the town's post office closed. In its early history from around the 1810s to 1900, Neatsville progressively grew to become a well-established, incorporated town. It has been relocated twice through the years, once due to flooding circa 1900–1902, which decimated the town, and once in the 1960s when the Green River was impounded to make way for the Green River Reservoir.
Whitehouse is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. In its early years, it was called Mt. Carbon and housed families from two different coal companies, Sandy River Cannel Coal Company and Whitehouse Cannel Coal Company. In 1887, the Ohio and Big Sandy Railroad, bought by C&O Railroad in 1892, reached the community and named the station "Whitehouse" after a large white house that served as a landmark for riverboats. On April 23, 1887, the community named its post office Myrtle, but in 1901, both the post office and community were renamed Whitehouse, after the railroad station. Whitehouse's ZIP code is 41240.
River is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. The post office was first established on September 6, 1890, and its current ZIP code is 41254. Its telephone area code is 606. Its geographic coordinates are.
Redbush is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. The community's first post office opened in 1904, with William A. Williams as postmaster. Williams also named Redbush after several small pin oaks that turned red in the fall near his post office. The community's ZIP code is 41219.
Ermine is an unincorporated community in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. Its ZIP Code is 41815.
Typo is an unincorporated community within Perry County, Kentucky, United States. Its post office has been closed.
Hi Hat is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. Its post office is still open.
Wises Landing is a hamlet located in Trimble County, Kentucky, United States. It is at the mouth of Barebone Creek, two miles from Corn Creek creek, at the headwaters of which is Corn Creek Church. In the 19th century it was a thriving port town for traffic inland into Trimble via the creeks. The community was served by the Corn Creek post office and was damaged in the 1937 Ohio River flood. In 1974, the Louisville Gas & Electric Company selected the area for the construction of a new power plant, which was completed in 1990. The Yeager General Store, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, is located in Wise's Landing.
Hot Spot is an unincorporated community and former coal town in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. It was named for the Hot Spot Coal Company. Other names for the community have been Smoot Creek, Dalna, Elsiecoal, and Premium. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.
Ulvah is an unincorporated community in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. Its post office has ceased to exist.
Halfway is an unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky, United States.
Fusonia is an unincorporated community and coal town in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
Christopher is an unincorporated community and coal town in Perry County, Kentucky, United States. Their post office has been closed.
Beefhide is an unincorporated community spanning across a county line between Letcher County and Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
Ages is an unincorporated coal town and census-designated place (CDP) in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States.
Benito is an unincorporated community and coal camp in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. Benito is located on the Clover Fork, near the city of Evarts, Kentucky. The small community is located between the communities of Gano and Highsplint.
Hatfield is an unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
Harveyton is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
Piso is an unincorporated community located in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. Their post office has been closed. The community was named by Bud Williamson after viewing an advertisement for medicine in an almanac.
