{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States}} {{distinguish|Nancy, Kentucky}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Jonancy |official_name = |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |nickname = |motto =
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'''Jonancy''' is a small unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky, United States, in the far eastern part of the state.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://kentucky.hometownlocator.com/ky/pike/jonancy.cfm |title = Jonancy Populated Place Profile / Pike County, Kentucky Data}}</ref> The latitude and longitude are 37.316N and -82.583W. Jonancy is in the Eastern Coal Field region. The community is in the Eastern time zone.
According to James Blake Miller, the hamlet's best-known resident, Jonancy was ''"named after my great-great-great grandparents: Joe and Nancy Miller ... [t]hey were the first people in those parts."''<ref>[https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/soldier-from-kentucky-just-wants-his-smokes-2671136.php SFGate.com]</ref>
== History == In 1911, the Sandy Valley and Elkhorn Railroad was built through Jonancy along Shelby Creek.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Society |first=Pike County Historic |date=2021-08-05 |title=SANDY VALLEY & ELKHORN RAILROAD |url=https://pikecountykyhistoricalsociety.com/sandy-valley-elkhorn-railroad/ |access-date=2025-06-29 |website=Pike County Historical Society |language=en-US}}</ref> Today, Kentucky State Highway 3527 runs through Jonancy adjacent to the old railroad, while the highway becomes KY 610 before reaching Jonancy.
By 1920, Jonancy residents formed the town's only place of worship, Union Church, a Baptist congregation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Society |first=Pike County Historic |date=2022-06-29 |title=A Brief History of Old Union Regular Baptist Church |url=https://pikecountykyhistoricalsociety.com/a-brief-history-of-old-union-regular-baptist-church/ |access-date=2025-06-29 |website=Pike County Historical Society |language=en-US}}</ref>
Jonancy has a post office.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jonancy Post Office, KY 41538 - Hours Phone Service and Location |url=https://us-postoffice.com/ky/jonancy/jonancy-post-office |access-date=2025-06-29 |website=us-postoffice.com}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} {{Pike County, Kentucky}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Pike County, Kentucky Category:Unincorporated communities in Kentucky Category:Coal towns in Kentucky