Sibert is a

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 ...

and rail depot, and was a

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, in

Clay County, Kentucky Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 20,345. Clay County is included in the Corbin, Kentucky micropolitan area. . Its county seat is Manchester. The county was forme ...

, United States located below the mouth of the Paw Paw Branch of the Horse Creek tributary of the Goose Creek river, half a mile above

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. The town, depot, and postoffice were all named after a local family who were descendants, through William and Milton Siebert, of pioneers Daniel and Sarah (Sallie) Siebert. In 1918, a Daniel Siebert had a mine on Horse Creek, upstream, and Thomas Siebert one upstream on Paw Paw branch.. The post office was established by Ellen Lewis on 1920-09-20, James W. McNamara its first postmaster, and closed in 1974. The elevation of Sibert is 876 feet. Its population in July 2007 is 3,027.

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