Toonerville is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Pike County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Kentucky
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. It in located in United States - some 301 mi (or 485 km) West of
Washington
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* George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States
* Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A ...
, the country's capital. It is part of a bigger
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
called
Mouthcard
History
The community was named after ''
Toonerville Folks
''Toonerville Folks'' ( ''The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains'') is a newspaper comic strip feature by Fontaine Fox, which ran from 1908 to 1955. It began in 1908 in the ''Chicago Post'', and by 1913, it was syndicated nationally by ...
'', a comic strip.
References
Unincorporated communities in Pike County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
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