Marcum was a

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...

Clay County, Kentucky Clay County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the county population was 20,345. Its county seat is Manchester, Kentucky, Manchester. The county was forme ...

from March 11, 1908 to June 1984. It was named for postmaster Henry B. Marcum Jr, who originally established it just below and crosses from the mouth of Sugar Creek on the

Red Bird River The Red Bird River is one of two tributaries at the head of the South Fork of the Kentucky River, the other being the Goose Creek. It is located in the Daniel Boone National Forest in extreme southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It ...

. Some time before 1928 it moved upriver by 1 mile to across from the mouth of Gilbert Creek, and remained there, located on

Kentucky Route 66 Kentucky Route 66 (KY 66) is a state highway in southeastern Kentucky. The route runs from Oneida in Clay County Clay County is the name of 18 counties in the United States. Most are named for Henry Clay, U.S. Senator and statesman: * Clay Co ...

east-southeast of

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

, until closure.

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* Unincorporated communities in Clay County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{ClayCountyKY-geo-stub