Busy, Kentucky

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

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|subdivision_name2 = Perry

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|population_as_of = 2000

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|timezone = Eastern (EST)

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|postal_code_type = ZIP code

|postal_code = 41723{{cite web|url=https://www.zipdatamaps.com/41723|title=Busy ZIP Code|publisher=zipdatamaps.com|year=2022|access-date=November 18, 2022}}

|area_code = 606

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|blank1_info = 511097{{gnis|511097}}

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Busy is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.

A post office called Busy was established in 1924.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=KY&county=Perry | title=Perry County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=8 June 2015}} The community was so named on account of its enterprising citizens (i.e. "busy as bees").{{cite book|last1=Moyer|first1=Armond|last2=Moyer|first2=Winifred|title=The origins of unusual place-names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=23|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|page=19}} Busy has been noted for its unusual place name.{{cite book|title=LIFE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QFUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57|date=31 January 1944|publisher=Time Inc|page=57|issn=0024-3019}}