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Glenville, Kentucky

Unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States

37°35′40″N 87°11′36″W / 37.59444°N 87.19333°W / 37.59444; -87.19333CountryUnited StatesStateKentuckyCountyMcLeanElevation

443 ft (135 m)Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Census code31438GNIS feature ID508101^[1]

Glenville (also Lickskillet) is an unincorporated community in McLean County, Kentucky, United States.^[2]

History

Glenville was established by John Moseley in 1825 with the name Long Falls Creek, after the creek that runs south of the community. In 1859 the hamlet was renamed Glenville for the large number of Glenn families in the area (likely descendants of Kentucky pioneer, David Glenn, who moved to the area in the 1790s)^[3] but was reverted to Long Falls Creek in 1864 and changed one final time to Glenville in 1884. In the early 1900s, the community was commonly called Lickskillet (or Lick Skillet) for the scarcity of food in the area at the time, which led to its discontinuation in 1905.^[4]

Geography

Glenville is located on the northern border of McLean County, and is neighbored by Daviess County to the north, Tichenor to the east, Buel to the south, Calhoun to the southwest, and Guffie to the west. It is found at the intersection of State Secondary Route 81 and Rural Secondary Route 140.^[5] It is located at latitude 37.595 and longitude -87.193.^[6]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Glenville, Kentucky
^ "Glenville, Kentucky". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ History of Daviess County, Kentucky. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, Biographies of Representative Citizens. And an Outline History of Kentucky. University of Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Company. 1883. p. 54.
^ Rennick, Robert M. (1987). Kentucky Place Names. Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. p. 118. ISBN 9780813126319.
^ "Kentucky Department of Transportation-McLean County" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on July 2, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
^ "Glenville (in McLean County, KY) Populated Place Profile". Kentucky HomeTownLocator. Archived from the original on May 13, 2018. Retrieved May 12, 2018.