Kipling is an

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 ...

and

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 reside ...

in southwestern

Center Township, Guernsey County, Ohio Center Township is one of the nineteen townships of Guernsey County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 1,744. Geography Located at the center of the county, it borders the following townships: * Jefferson Township - ...

, United States. It lies along State Route 265.

History

The community was named after

Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British Raj, British India, which inspired much ...

, the British author.}

References

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