Pippa Passes, Kentucky
| Pippa Passes, Kentucky | |
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| City | |
Buildings on the Alice Lloyd campus
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| Nickname(s): Caney, Caney Creek | |
 Location of Pippa Passes, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates: 37°20′5″N 82°52′32″W / 37.33472°N 82.87556°WCoordinates: 37°20′5″N 82°52′32″W / 37.33472°N 82.87556°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kentucky |
| County | Knott |
| Incorporated | 1983 |
| Named for | a Robert Browning poem |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.5 sq mi (1.4 km2) |
| • Land | 0.5 sq mi (1.4 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 991 ft (302 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 533 |
| • Density | 1,064.0/sq mi (380.0/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 41844 |
| Area code(s) | 606 |
| FIPS code | 21-61374 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0500757 |
Pippa Passes is a 6th-class city located along Caney Creek in Knott County, eastern Kentucky, United States. Its formal name was chosen to honor benefactors of Alice Lloyd College. After more than a century, its residents commonly call the community as Caney or Caney Creek. The population was 533 at the time of the year 2010 U.S. Census. The small city is located in the mountainous Appalachia region, an area of coal mining.
European Americans had long called this settlement "Caney" or "Caney Creek" by 1916, when Alice Lloyd arrived from Boston. She solicited funds for the construction of a local post office and the founding of Caney Creek Junior College, which were opened in 1917 and 1923, respectively. A donation from the Browning Society led to the post office's being named after Robert Browning's Pippa Passes. In this verse drama he coined the phrase "God's in His heaven, all's right with the world." (Given the U.S. Postal Service's preference for monogrammatic names, this location was known as Pippapass until 1955.)
The city of Pippa Passes was incorporated by the state assembly on July 1, 1983.
It is governed by a mayor elected at-large and a city council whose members are elected from single-member districts. As of 2009, the mayor is Scott Cornett. He is the baseball coach for the college. The local police department operates as a combined unit with the college's security organization.
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