Williba, Kentucky

Williba is an unincorporated community in Lee County, Kentucky, United States, located on Fraley Creek, one-half mile from the confluence of the North Fork and the Kentucky River.

Its post office opened on March 29, 1904, and was believed to have been originally named after Willoughby, England, from where the ancestors of the area's settlers were thought to have emigrated. The name "Williba" was supposedly a corruption adopted by its first postmaster to fit the name on a rubber stamp. The post office was later closed.

References

"Williba, Kentucky". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
Rennick, Robert M. (1988), Kentucky Place Names (reprint ed.), University Press of Kentucky, p. 320, ISBN 978-0-8131-0179-8

Municipalities and communities of Lee County, Kentucky, United States

County seat: Beattyville

City	Beattyville

Unincorporated communities	Airedale Athol Belle Point Canyon Falls Congleton Cressmont Delvinta Earnestville Enoch Evelyn Fillmore Fincastle Fixer Greeley Heidelberg Idamay Leeco Lone Lower Buffalo Maloney Monica Mount Olive Old Landing Primrose Proctor St. Helens Standing Rock Tallega White Ash Williba Willow Yellow Rock Zacharia Zoe

Coordinates: 37°37′23″N 83°34′09″W / 37.62306°N 83.56917°W / 37.62306; -83.56917

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