Means, Kentucky

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

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Means is an unincorporated community in Menifee County, Kentucky, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 460 and Kentucky Route 713, west of the city of Frenchburg, the county seat of Menifee County.Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '06. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2006, p. 43. Its elevation is 850 feet (259 m).{{gnis|513896}}, Geographic Names Information System, 1979-09-20. Accessed 2008-01-03. It has a post office with the ZIP code 40346.[https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?citybyzipcode USPS – Cities by ZIP Code] Means is part of the Mount Sterling Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The community has the name of the local Means family.{{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=87|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|page=83}}