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Frakes is an unincorporated community located in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.

First settled in the 1850s, it was known as South America for its relative remoteness. The community was renamed in the 1930s for the local pastor Hiram Milo Frakes.^[3]

References

^ "Frakes ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Frakes, Kentucky
^ Rennick, Robert M. (1987). Kentucky Place Names. University Press of Kentucky. p. 108. ISBN 0813126312. Retrieved April 28, 2013.

[1] "Frakes ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.

[2] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Frakes, Kentucky

[3] Rennick, Robert M. (1987). Kentucky Place Names. University Press of Kentucky. p. 108. ISBN 0813126312. Retrieved April 28, 2013.

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Municipalities and communities of Bell County, Kentucky, United States
County seat: Pineville
Cities	Middlesboro Pineville	Location of Bell County, Kentucky
CDP	Arjay
Other unincorporated communities	Balkan Black Snake Blackmont Calvin Clear Creek Springs Colmar Cubage Field Fonde Fourmile Frakes Harbell Hutch Ingram Jaybel Keenox Kettle Island Meldrum Miracle Noetown Oaks Olcott Ponza Premier Pruden‡ Red Oak Rella Stoney Fork Stony Fork Junction Tejay Timsley Tuggleville Varilla Wallsend Wasioto
post offices (and the creeks they are on)	Red Bird River (includes Red Bird/Nuckles/Beverly)
Ghost towns	Arjay Coal Camp Glendon Coal Camp Kettle Island Coal Camp Nugym Rim Camp Yellow Creek
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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