Typo, Kentucky

Unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States

37°16′40″N 83°15′18″W / 37.27778°N 83.25500°W / 37.27778; -83.25500CountryUnited StatesStateKentuckyCountyPerryElevation

1,037 ft (316 m)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)ZIP codes

41771

GNIS feature ID516091^[1]

Typo is an unincorporated community within Perry County, Kentucky, United States. Its post office^[2] has been closed.

Typo gained its name from loggers who tied poles to their logs to make rafts at the community. Since the community is located at the mouth of Big Creek into the Kentucky River, loggers made their rafts there before continuing downriver.^[3] It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.^[4]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Typo, Kentucky
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Typo KY post office
^ Blackford, Linda B. (December 27, 2006). "Origins of name mostly a mystery, but Typo spells home". Chicago Tribune.
^ Don Voorhees (October 4, 2011). The Super Book of Useless Information: The Most Powerfully Unnecessary Things You Never Need to Know. Penguin Group US. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-101-54513-3.

Municipalities and communities of Perry County, Kentucky, United States

County seat: Hazard

Cities

Buckhorn
Hazard

CDPs

Combs
Diablock
Jeff

Other
unincorporated
communities

Ghost town

Upper Squabble

Former mining towns

Post offices
(and the creeks
they are on)

Lost Creek (includes Lost Creek, Dice, and Engle)
Troublesome Creek (includes Troublesome, Dwarf, Ary, and Rowdy)
Big Creek (includes Avawam, Catur, Begley, and Tug)
North Fork tributaries at Hazard (includes Monos, Butterfly, Lotair, Allais, Airport Gardens, Lennut, Domino, and Combs)