[60] Similarly, on some modern maps a distinction is drawn between Red Bird Creek, which is the reach upstream of the confluence with Phillips Fork, and Red Bird River, which is the reach downstream;[1] although the KGS Fourth Report in 1918 made no such distinction and simply named whole thing Redbird Creek.

[61] The meeting point of Clay, Bell, and Leslie counties is just east of Sandy Fork.

[60] Local schoolteacher and minister John Jay Dickey recorded the Gilberts's tales in his diary in the 1890s.

[65] Chief Red Bird and Jack are not recorded in any history books at all from the early 19th century,[66] only being recorded by Dickey as aforementioned and by Richard Collins (revising his father Lewis's earlier work) in the 1870s;[65][67] however there were two Red Bird post offices and several other things named after (at least) the river and the two creeks.

[1] The second Red Bird post office in Bell County was established on 1876-10-24 by postmaster Richard Wilkerson Asher.

[8] It was located at the mouth of Cow Creek and remained there as it passed through the hands of successive family members.

[8] When R. W. Asher died in 1884 it passed to his daughter Amanda "Mandy" Jane, who married one William R. "Bill" Knuckles.

[8] She attempted to rename the post office Knuckles, but she misspelled it as Nuckles on the USPS forms.

[68] R. W. Asher was a storekeeper and a preacher, and in his time the post office served a small area with a corn mill, a school, and a church.

[8] This was to become the Red Bird Mission and Settlement School, built by the Women's Missionary Society of the Evangelical Church of Pennsylvania.

[8] It has operated a sales outlet for local craftspeople, a community store, several schools, fifteen churches across five counties, a hospital, and a clinic.

[70][71] It was originally established at the Brittons's home at the mouth of Hector Creek, but moved three times.

[70] The first move was to the east side of the Red Bird River, south of the mouth of Big Creek, which was the result of its reëstablishment after the hiatus on 1943-08-29 by George C.

[70] The second move was back north in 1944 by Mary W. Bowling to the west of the Red Bird, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from the then Jacks Creek post office.

[70] The third move took it upriver in 1949, and at its closure in 1988 it was still on the west side of the Red Bird, at the junction of Kentucky Route 66 and Jacks Creek Road.

[73] Clay County historian Jess D. Wilson, in his book When They Hanged The Fiddler, gives the most directly sourced: a story from his own family lore about the local preacher waiting for "Andy's passing" in the middle of church services, as Wilson's great-grandfather Andy Baker would drunkenly and noisily pass by.

[73][63] The Gardner post office was established on 1931-05-31 and run by postmaster Ray Kevil Carter until August 1940.

[33] The Bringardner Lumber Company's railway operated out of what was at the time known as Asher's Fork, further upstream towards the Beverly post office.

[33] It was located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) upstream on Flat Creek at the mouth of its Rocky Fork.

[55] It was located at the mouth of the same-named Sandy Fork, and changed name to Sandyfork in March 1894.

[79] A family named Asher settled in the Upper Red Bird Creek area in the 19th century,[80] descendents of early settler and local landowner in the Goose Creek and Red Bird valleys, Dillion Asher (1774–1844), who back in 1800 had lived in a minor tributary hollow just downstream of the Phillip's Fork.

[82] He built a log home there in 1799, which still stands on the grounds of the Red Bird River Community Hospital of the United Brethren Church.