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Balkan, Kentucky
Balkan, Kentucky

Balkan was a Bell county town on Tom Fork about nine miles east of Pineville. The town was established circa 1912 by the Southern Mining Company to house miners, and their families, for their underground coal mines. The name may come from a large number of central European miners employed there or the intent to attract them. The population peaked in the 1920s at about 1,000. The town is gone and some of the area has been strip mined. The Balkan post office opened in 1912 and closed in 1982.

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