Cubage, Kentucky

Cubage
Unincorporated community
Cubage Location within the state of Kentucky
Coordinates: 36°42′4″N 83°31′16″W / 36.70111°N 83.52111°W / 36.70111; -83.52111Coordinates: 36°42′4″N 83°31′16″W / 36.70111°N 83.52111°W / 36.70111; -83.52111
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
County	Bell
Elevation	1,178 ft (359 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes	40822
GNIS feature ID	490455^[1]

Cubage is an unincorporated community located in Bell County, Kentucky, United States. Their post office closed in 1989.^[2]

According to tradition, someone carved "cub bear killed here" onto a beech tree. Cub Beech, as it was then known, was corrupted into Cubage. A post office was established in 1879.^[3]

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cubage, Kentucky
↑ http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postmasterfinder/welcome.htm
↑ Rennick, Robert M. (1987). Kentucky Place Names. University Press of Kentucky. p. 75. Retrieved 2013-04-28.

Municipalities and communities of Bell County, Kentucky, United States

County seat: Pineville

Cities	Middlesboro Pineville

Unincorporated communities	Arjay Balkan Beverly Black Snake Blackmont Clear Creek Springs Colmar Cubage Field Fonde Fourmile Frakes Harbell Hutch Ingram Jaybel Keenox Kettle Island Laurel Ford Meldrum Miracle Mocking Bird Branch Noetown Oaks Olcott Ponza Premier Pruden‡ Red Oak Rella Stoney Fork Stony Fork Junction Sugar Run Tejay Timsley Tuggleville Varilla Wallsend Wasioto

Ghost towns	Arjay Coal Camp Glendon Coal Camp Kettle Island Coal Camp Nugym Rim Camp Yellow Creek

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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