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Oldtown, Kentucky

human settlement in United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ48834746 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oldtown is an unincorporated community in Greenup County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

History

A post office called Oldtown was established in 1836, and remained in operation until 1992. According to tradition, the community was named for an Indian village at the original town site.

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“Oldtown, Kentucky” enters the record as human settlement in United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oldtown, Kentucky and human can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q48834746. Authority coordinates are 38.440, -82.898. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1836 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oldtown, Kentucky” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.