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]
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^"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. ISBN0813126312. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
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