Roundhill is an
unincorporated community
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in
Butler County,
Kentucky
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, United States, situated on Butler County's eastern boundary with
Edmonson County.
Geography
Roundhill is located on the county line between Butler and
Edmonson counties at , at a crossroad intersection of
State Highways 70 and
185
Year 185 ( CLXXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lascivius and Atilius (or, less frequently, year 938 '' Ab urbe co ...
. KY 70 leads west to
Morgantown, and east to
Brownsville. KY 185 leads north to
Caneyville, and south to
Bowling Green
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls.
Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep on ...
.
The town is located along the Big Reedy Creek, a tributary of the
Green River Green River may refer to:
Rivers
Canada
*Green River (British Columbia), a tributary of the Lillooet River
*Green River, a tributary of the Saint John River, also known by its French name of Rivière Verte
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. Roundhill is part of the Bowling Green
MSA, but it is part of Kentucky's
Western Coal Fields
The West Kentucky Coal Field comprises an area in the west-central and northwestern part of the state, bounded by the Dripping Springs Escarpment and the Pennyroyal Plateau and the Ohio River, but is part of the Illinois Basin that extends into ...
region.
Education
Because of the community's extremely-close proximity to the Butler-Edmonson County line, it is on the boundary of two school districts based in Morgantown and Brownsville, respectively. Students west and/or south of the KY 70 and KY 185 junction attend
Butler County Schools based in
Morgantown, while students east and/or north of the junction attend
Edmonson County Schools
Edmonson County Schools is a public school district in Edmonson County, Kentucky, based in Brownsville.
Schools
The Edmonson County School District has two elementary schools, one school that houses 5th and 6th grade students, one middle schoo ...
in the
Brownsville area. North Butler Elementary in Jetson and
Kyrock Elementary near
Sweeden are the closest elementary/grade schools on their respective sides of the county line.
Sites of interest
Roundhill is home to two businesses along the county line, one is an auto parts/repair shop and the other, a
convenience store
A convenience store, convenience shop, corner store or corner shop is a small retail business that stocks a range of everyday items such as coffee, groceries, snack foods, confectionery, soft drinks, ice creams, tobacco products, lottery ticket ...
named "The Corner Market," which is locally owned and operated since 1988 by the Raymer family, and it offers a limited grocery-line, lunch-meat, soft drinks, local weekly newspapers from both sides of the county line and, since the early to mid- 2010s, hot meals.
That business also serves as the community's
USPS
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village post office with
ZIP code 42275.
Roundhill Church of Christ is the main place of worship in this community. Just east of the community on KY 70 is Hopewell Baptist Church. Threlkel Cemetery is located just west of the community.
Nearby cities
*
Morgantown
*
Brownsville
*
Big Reedy
*
Bowling Green
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls.
Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep on ...
*
Caneyville
References
External links
The Corner Market of Roundhill - official websiteThe Corner Market on Facebook
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Unincorporated communities in Kentucky