Forkland is a small
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in southwestern
Boyle County,
Kentucky
Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...
, United States, along the North Rolling Fork.
It is part of the
Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The area was settled by 1800 and the name was in use at an early date. A Forkland post office, possibly located a little to the east at the mouth of Hungry Neck Fork, operated from 1891 to 1905.
External links
University of Kentucky AtlasForkland Community Center
Unincorporated communities in Boyle County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
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