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Stone
Unincorporated community
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
County	Pike
Elevation	784 ft (239 m)
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CST (UTC-5)
GNIS feature ID	504444

Stone is an unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky, United States. It was established in 1912. Stone was a mining community named for Galen Stone, head of the Pond Creek Coal Company which was based in Stone. In 1922 the Pond Creek Coal Company was sold to Fordson Coal Company, which was a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. In 1936 Fordson sold the mine at Stone to Eastern Coal Company.

Stone is located just across the Tug Fork from Williamson, West Virginia, upstream from Belfry, Kentucky, on Pond Creek.

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Municipalities and communities of Pike County, Kentucky, United States

County seat: Pikeville

Cities	Coal Run Village Elkhorn City Pikeville

CDPs	Dorton Freeburn McCarr Phelps South Williamson Virgie

Other unincorporated communities	Aflex Argo Arrow Ashcamp Beefhide Belcher Belfry Big Card Big Creek Big Shoal Biggs Burnwell Canada Coal Run Village Dunleary Esco Fedscreek Fishtrap Fords Branch Garden Village Goody Greasy Creek Hamlack Hardy Hatfield Hellier Henry Clay Huddy Jonancy Kewanee Kimper Left Fork of Blackberry Lick Creek Little Dixie Little Floyd County Lookout Majestic Marrowbone McAndrews McVeigh Meathouse Meta Mossy Bottom Mouthcard Myra New Alma Coal Camp Pauley Paw Paw Penny Phyllis Pinsonfork Piso Raccoon Ransom Right Fork of Long Fork Right Fork of Meathouse Robinson Creek Rockhouse Sharondale Shelbiana Shelby Gap Railroad Station Sidney Steele Stone Stopover Toler Toonerville Turkey Creek Upper Dick Varney Wolfpit Yeager

Ghost towns	Allegheny Jonkan The Devils Bow

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