Dayhoit is an
unincorporated community in
Harlan County,
Kentucky, United States. It has a
post office with the
ZIP code 40824. The population of the
ZCTA
ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics. These were introduced with the Census 2000 and continued with the 2010 Census and 5 year American Community ...
for 40824 was 458 at the
2000 census.
Dayhoit is also known as Wilhoit, and its odd double name has a complicated history. A post office named for the
Day family was here first, but Roy Wilhoit, a coal operator, insisted the railroad use his name for the new station. After
an extended controversy, the Post Office Department decided in 1930 to compromise and call the office Dayhoit. The railroad continued to use Wilhoit, and the place appears on maps now as Wilhoit (Dayhoit PO).
[Temple, Robert D. ''Edge Effects: The Border-Name Places'', (2nd edition, 2009), iUniverse, , page 161.]
References
Unincorporated communities in Harlan County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
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