Roundstone, Kentucky
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Roundstone is an
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 Rockcastle County, in the
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of
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 ...
. It is located at the junction of U.S. Route 25,
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, and Kentucky Route 1617. The
CC Subdivision The CC Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. State of Kentucky. The line runs from Taylor Mill, Kentucky, to Corbin, Kentucky, for a total of . At its north end the line continues as a branch of the Cincinnati ...
runs through Roundstone.


History

A post office called Roundstone was established in 1856, and remained in operation until 1893. The community took its name from nearby Roundstone Creek.


References

Unincorporated communities in Rockcastle County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{RockcastleCountyKY-geo-stub