Pettit 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 Daviess County,

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

, United States, named for Thomas S. Pettit, the long-time publisher of ''The Monitor'' (now the '' Messenger-Inquirer''), who helped clear and improve the land that the community now occupies.Connelley and Coulter, p. 158

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* Unincorporated communities in Daviess County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{DaviessCountyKY-geo-stub