Glens Fork
Glens Fork is an unincorporated community located in Adair County, Kentucky, United States. Its elevation is 810 feet. Glens Fork is located in a region of limestone, so the land is perforated by many sinkholes and small caves.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: community in Adair County, Kentucky
- Also known as: “Glennsville”, “Glens Fork, Kentucky”, “Glens Fork, KY”, and “Hardscratch”
- Postal code: 42741
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Joppa and Fairplay.
Joppa
Hamlet
Joppa is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States. Its elevation is 837 feet. The community is on Kentucky Route 92 and Kentucky Route 55 near a dead end on Lake Cumberland south of Jamestown. Joppa is situated 2½ miles north of Glens Fork.
Fairplay
Hamlet
Fairplay is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States. Its elevation is 984 feet. It is on Kentucky Route 704. The community was so named because of the fairness characterized by the first settlers in all their dealings. Fairplay is situated 3 miles west of Glens Fork.
Crocus
Hamlet
Crocus is an unincorporated community in Adair and Russell counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Its elevation is 988 feet. The community, first established in 1840, possibly received its name from the wild crocuses growing along the nearby creek. Crocus is situated 3 miles southeast of Glens Fork.
Glens Fork
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Adair, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.01395° or 37° 0′ 50″ northLongitude
-85.25052° or 85° 15′ 2″ westElevation
810 feet (247 metres)Open location code
869P2P7X+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 153540472OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Urdu—“Glens Fork” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “格倫斯福克”
- French: “Glens Fork”
- Irish: “Glens Fork”
- Persian: “گلن فورک، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “گلن فورک”
- South Azerbaijani: “قلن فورک، کنتاکی”
- Turkish: “Glens Fork”
- Urdu: “گلینز فورک، کینٹکی”
- Urdu: “گلینز فورک”
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