Editing Pippa Passes, Kentucky

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|official_name            = Pippa Passes, Kentucky
|settlement_type          = [[list of Ky cities|City]]
|named_for                = a [[Pippa Passes|Robert Browning poem]]
|nickname                 = Caney, Caney Creek
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|subdivision_name         = United States
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|subdivision_name1        = [[Kentucky]]
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|subdivision_name2        = [[Knott County, Kentucky|Knott]]
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|established_date         = 1983<ref name=sos>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Pippa Passes, Kentucky". Accessed 27 September 2013.</ref>

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|population_as_of         = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
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|population_total         = 468
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|postal_code              = 41844
|area_code                = [[Area code 606|606]]
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'''Pippa Passes''' is a [[List of cities in Kentucky|home rule-class city]] located along Caney Fork in [[Knott County, Kentucky|Knott County]], eastern [[Kentucky]], United States. Its formal name was chosen to honor benefactors of [[Alice Lloyd College]]. Residents commonly call the community "Caney" or "Caney Creek". The population was 533 at the [[2010 U.S. Census|2010 census]],<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web| url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US2161374| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Pippa Passes city, Kentucky| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| work=American Factfinder| access-date=March 6, 2019}}{{dead link|bot=medic|date=April 2020}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> up from 297 at the 2000 census. The small city is located in the mountainous [[Appalachia]] region, an area of coal mining.

==History==

This settlement was known as "Caney" or "Caney Creek" before 1916, when [[Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd|Alice Lloyd]] arrived from [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. She solicited funds<!-- from whom? --> for the construction of a local post office and the founding of Caney Creek Junior College, which were opened in 1917 and 1923, respectively.

Members of the Methodist church were active in what they called Home Missionary work in Pippa Passes around 1930. They performed a "missionary play" about the town in [[Princeton, New Jersey]] in 1930.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 28, 1930 |title=Methodist Church Services |edition= |volume=7 |pages=2 |work=Princeton Herald |issue=21 |url=https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=princetonherald19300328.2.28&srpos=4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22missionary+play%22------}}</ref>

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."<ref>{{cite book|last=Rundquist|first=Thomas J.|title=Substitute Teacher Survival Activities Vol 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u0SQKH7d1hYC&pg=PA46|date=1 August 2000|publisher=Nova Media Inc|isbn=978-1-884239-51-9|page=46}}</ref> The [[U.S. Postal Service]]'s official name for this location was "Pippapass" until 1955.<ref name="ren">Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA236 p. 236]. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 1 August 2013.</ref>

The city of Pippa Passes was [[municipal corporation|incorporated]] by the [[Kentucky Assembly|state assembly]] on July 1, 1983.

==Government==
It is governed by a [[mayor]] elected [[at-large]] and a [[city council]] whose members are elected from [[single-member district]]s.<ref name=ALC>[[Alice Lloyd College]]. "[http://www.alc.edu/student_life/student_safety.php Campus Safety] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705154223/http://www.alc.edu/student_life/student_safety.php |date=2010-07-05 }}". Accessed 27 June 2009.</ref> As of 2009, the mayor is Scott Cornett. He is the baseball and basketball coach for the college.<ref>Kentucky League of Cities. "[http://www.klc.org/directory.asp?city=1316 Pippa Passes]". Accessed 30 March 2009.</ref> The local police department operates as a combined unit with the college's security organization.<ref name=ALC/>

==Geography==
Pippa Passes is in eastern Knott County at {{coord|37|20|5|N|82|52|32|W|type:city}} (37.334629, -82.875490),<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> in the valley of the Caney Fork. [[Kentucky Route 899]] passes through the community, leading northeast down the valley of the Caney Fork {{convert|11|mi}} to [[Wayland, Kentucky|Wayland]] and southwest then northwest {{convert|8|mi|0}} to [[Hindman, Kentucky|Hindman]], the Knott [[county seat]].

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city of Pippa Passes has a total area of {{convert|1.15|km2|order=flip}}, all of it recorded as land.<ref name="Census 2010"/> The Caney Fork flows northeast to the Right Fork of Beaver Creek near Wayland and is part of the [[Levisa Fork]] watershed.

==Demographics==

{{US Census population
|1990= 195
|2000= 297
|2010= 533
|2020= 468
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}

As of the census of 2010, there were 533 people, 44 households, and 26 families residing in the city. 439 people (82% of the population) lived in group quarters, i.e. college dormitories. The population density was {{convert|1,196|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was 97.2% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 1.3% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.6% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.6% [[Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander]], and 0.4% from two or more races.<ref name="Census 2010 DP">{{Cite web| url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/SF1DP1/1600000US2161374| title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (DP-1): Pippa Passes city, Kentucky| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| work=American Factfinder| access-date=March 6, 2019| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213121637/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/SF1DP1/1600000US2161374| archive-date=February 13, 2020| url-status=dead}}</ref>

Of the 44 households in the city, 34.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.9% were headed by [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.9% were non-families. 11.3% of households were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.14, and the average family size was 2.88.<ref name="Census 2010 DP"/>

5.1% of the city population were under the age of 18, 74.8% were from 18 to 24, 7.6% were from 25 to 44, 9.6% were from 45 to 64, and 2.8% were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 20.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.2 males.<ref name="Census 2010 DP"/>

For the period 2013–17, the estimated median annual income for a household in the city was $65,500, and the median income for a family was $76,250. Male full-time workers had a median income of $33,750 versus $21,591 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city, including the non-household population, was $9,432.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/17_5YR/DP03/1600000US2161374| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213091556/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/17_5YR/DP03/1600000US2161374| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 13, 2020| title=Selected Economic Characteristics: 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (DP03): Pippa Passes city, Kentucky| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| work=American Factfinder| access-date=March 6, 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==

{{Knott County, Kentucky}}
{{Eastern Mountain Coal Fields (Kentucky)}}

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