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Beefhide, Kentucky
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 37°14′23″N 82°37′39″W / 37.23972°N 82.62750°W / 37.23972; -82.62750
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
County	Letcher and Pike
Elevation	1,214 ft (370 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID	507483^[1]

Beefhide is an unincorporated community spanning across a county line between Letcher County and Pike County, Kentucky, United States.

History

A post office was established at Beefhide in 1901, and remained in operation until 1956.^[2] The community takes its name from nearby Beefhide Creek.^[3]

Geography

Beefhide is located along Beefhide Creek which runs east and north out of Letcher County, into Pike County. The post office location per GNIS (37°14′12″N 82°38′09″W / 37.2367436°N 82.6357730°W / 37.2367436; -82.6357730 (Beefhide Post Office (historical)))^[2] is in Pike County, Kentucky and the populated place location per GNIS ^[4] is in both Letcher County and Pike County (37°14′23″N 82°37′39″W / 37.2398277°N 82.6273777°W / 37.2398277; -82.6273777 (Beefhide (map: Jenkins West)) and 37°14′29″N 82°37′19″W / 37.2414945°N 82.6218220°W / 37.2414945; -82.6218220 (Beefhide (map: Jenkins East))).^[5]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Beefhide, Kentucky
^ ^a ^b "Beefhide Post Office (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 12.
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Beefhide
^ topoquest map

v t e Municipalities and communities of Letcher County, Kentucky, United States
County seat: Whitesburg
Cities	Blackey Fleming-Neon Jenkins Whitesburg	Location of Letcher County, Kentucky
CDPs	Mayking McRoberts Millstone Payne Gap
Unincorporated communities	Beefhide Burdine Carbon Glow Cromona Deane Defeated Creek Democrat Dongola Dunham Eolia Ermine Farraday Gaskill Gilley Gordon Hallie Hemphill Hot Spot Ice Isom Jeremiah Kingdom Come Kona Letcher Little Colly Linefork Neon Oven Fork Partridge Roxana Seco Sergent Skyline Thornton Tillie Ulvah Whitco
Ghost towns	Hubert Indian Bottom Red Star Uz
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v t e Municipalities and communities of Pike County, Kentucky, United States
County seat: Pikeville
Cities	Coal Run Village Elkhorn City Pikeville	Location of Pike County, Kentucky
CDPs	Belfry Dorton Freeburn McCarr Phelps South Williamson Virgie
Other unincorporated communities	Aflex Argo Arrow Ashcamp Beefhide Belcher Big Card Big Shoal Biggs Broad Bottom Burnwell Canada Coal Run Village Dunleary Esco Fedscreek Fishtrap Fords Branch Garden Village Goody Greasy Creek Hamlack Hardy Hatfield Hellier Henry Clay Huddy Jonancy Kewanee Kimper Lick Creek Little Dixie Little Floyd County Lookout Majestic Marrowbone McAndrews McVeigh Meathouse Meta Mossy Bottom Mouthcard Myra New Alma Coal Camp Pauley Paw Paw Penny Phyllis Pinsonfork Piso Raccoon Ransom Right Fork of Long Fork Robinson Creek Rockhouse Sharondale Shelbiana Shelby Gap Railroad Station Sidney Steele Stone Stopover Toler Toonerville Turkey Creek Varney Wolfpit Yeager
Ghost towns	Allegheny Jonkan
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