unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in northwestern
Monroe County, Kentucky
Monroe County is a county located in the Eastern Pennyroyal Plateau region of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Its county seat is Tompkinsville. The county is named for President James Monroe. It was a prohibition or dry county until November 7, 20 ...
, United States. The community is located around the intersection of Kentucky Route 678 and Kentucky Route 839.
“‘It was named for the licks on Sulphur Creek (now Skaggs) where buffalo, deer, and other animals would gather from pastures of grass and cane to lick the salt and sulphur from the rocks along the creek bed. A sulphur spring exists within 1 mi. of this place.’ (By members of the Sulphur Lick Homemakers Club. ‘Sulphur Lick History Told by Women of the Community’ in the 50th anniversary edition of The Tompkinsville News, 10/28/1954).”Rennick, Robert M., "Monroe County - Place Names" (2016). Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection. 111. Sulphur Lick”https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/rennick_ms_collection/111