Pippa Passes

History

This settlement was known as "Caney" or "Caney Creek" before 1916, when Alice Lloyd arrived from Boston, Massachusetts. 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. 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. 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." The U.S. Postal Service's official name for this location was "Pippapass" until 1955. The city of Pippa Passes was incorporated by the state assembly on July 1, 1983.

Geography

Pippa Passes is in eastern Knott County at (37.334629, -82.875490), in the valley of the Caney Fork. Kentucky Route 899 passes through the community, leading northeast down the valley of the Caney Fork to Wayland and southwest then northwest to Hindman, the Knott county seat. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city of Pippa Passes has a total area of , all of it recorded as land. The Caney Fork flows northeast to the Right Fork of Beaver Creek near Wayland and is part of the Levisa Fork watershed.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• Knott County Central High School
  High · Hindman · 552 students · 11.5:1 ratio
• Hindman Elementary School
  Elementary · Hindman · 430 students · 12.6:1 ratio
• Carr Creek Elementary School
  Elementary · Littcarr · 360 students · 12.9:1 ratio
• Beaver Creek Elementary School
  Elementary · Topmost · 196 students · 12.3:1 ratio
• Jones Fork Elementary School
  Elementary · Mousie · 164 students · 13.7:1 ratio
• Knott County Area Technology Center
  High · Hindman