Biohazard Cleanup Near Fleming Fleming-Neon, KY

Fleming-Neon is a home rule-class city in Letcher County, in the Appalachian coalfields of eastern Kentucky.

The city was created by the merger of two neighboring coal towns, Fleming and Neon, in 1977.

The 2020 census counted 548 residents in Fleming-Neon, down sharply from 840 people in 351 households at the 2000 census as the region's coal economy contracted.

Fleming was established in 1913 by the Elkhorn Coal Corporation and named for George W. Fleming, the company's officer and first president.

The community that became Neon began as "Chip," a lumber yard and storage site for yellow poplar that had a post office under that name from 1902 to 1915.

Unlike the surrounding company towns, Neon was developed by the local Letcher Coal and Development Company as a trading center for the nearby coal towns, and it was incorporated in August 1916.

The Neon post office opened in 1926, and the merged city still carries both of its parents' names.

The Elkhorn Coal Corporation built Fleming-Neon High School in 1925, and the school opened in 1926 and served the community for about 80 years.

Fleming-Neon High School graduated its last class in 2005, when it consolidated with Whitesburg and Letcher high schools to form Letcher County Central High School.

The city covers about 1.6 square miles.