Olmstead, Kentucky

Olmstead is an unincorporated community in Logan County, Kentucky, United States.[2]

Olmstead, Kentucky
Unincorporated community
Olmstead is located in Kentucky
Olmstead
Olmstead
Olmstead is located in the United States
Olmstead
Olmstead
Coordinates: 36°45′8″N 87°00′54″W
CountryUnited States
StateKentucky
CountyLogan
Elevation
581 ft (177 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
42265[1]
Area code(s)270 and 364
GNIS feature ID499937[2]

Olmstead was a station on the L & N railroad between Bowling Green, KY and Clarksville, TN that opened in 1860. It was named after a leader in the effort to build the railroad.[3] Olmstead is also the site of an elementary and middle school.[4] A post office has been in operation until recently in Olmstead since 1862.[5]

It is the location of, or nearest community to, Cedar Grove Rosenwald School which was a historic Rosenwald School built in 1928. The school is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[6]

References
  1. "Olmstead ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  2. "Olmstead". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. The Heavens are Weeping-The Diaries of George Dick Browder.
  4. Collins, Lewis (1877). History of Kentucky. p. 480.
  5. "Logan County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
  6. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.


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