Whitco
Whitco is an unincorporated community and coal town in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. A post office operated in Whitco from 1918 to 1933.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: township in Letcher County, Kentucky
- Also known as: “Whitco, Kentucky” and “Whitco, KY”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ice and Whitesburg.
Ice
Hamlet
Ice is an unincorporated community in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. Ice owes its name to a complaint that someone made about the icy weather when the hamlet's post office was established on December 23, 1897.
Whitesburg
Town
Photo: MarkWKidd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitesburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The population was at the 2020 census and an estimated 1,711 in 2022.
Hot Spot
Hamlet
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. Hot Spot is situated 3½ miles west of Whitco.
Whitco
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Letcher, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.11954° or 37° 7′ 10″ northLongitude
-82.85127° or 82° 51′ 5″ westElevation
1,138 feet (347 metres)Open location code
869V449X+RFOpenStreetMap ID
node 154021982OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to South Azerbaijani—“Whitco” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “惠特科”
- French: “Whitco”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویتکو، کنتاکی”
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Highlights include Sandlick Church and Sandlick Creek Cemetery.
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