Highsplint is a former

coal town A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch, is a type of company town or mining community established by the employer, a mining company, which imports workers to the site to work the mineral find. The company develops it and provides residen ...

with an extinct post office in Harlan County,

Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...

, United States. It was named for the High Splint and Seagraves Coal Companies which operated a mine in the town at that time. Highsplint's first post office was established on February 7, 1918, with John D. Casey as postmaster, remaining in operation until 1974.

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Picture of Highsplint during the 1940s
Unincorporated communities in Harlan County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky Company towns in Kentucky Populated places established in 1918 Coal towns in Kentucky {{HarlanCountyKY-geo-stub