Kirksey 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 ...

in Calloway County,

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, United States. The post office was established on July 14, 1871, by Stephen Franklin Kirksey. Post Master Kirksey used the same building for a post office that had served as a post office from 1857 to 1860 that was known at the time as Radford, Kentucky. Post Master Kirksey submitted his own name to the

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instead of the names Reedville and Rosedale which were preferred by the residents in the area.

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Unincorporated communities in Calloway County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{CallowayCountyKY-geo-stub