Port Royal, Kentucky

Last updated May 02, 2019

Port Royal is an unincorporated community ^[1] in north-eastern Henry County, Kentucky, United States.

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.

Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky bordering the Kentucky River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,416. Its county seat is New Castle, but its largest city is Eminence. The county was founded in 1798 from portions of Shelby County. It was named for the statesman and governor of Virginia Patrick Henry.

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Although styled as the "State of Kentucky" in the law creating it, (because in Kentucky's first constitution, the name state was used) Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth. Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States.

Location

The community's center is the intersection of State Highway 193 and Cane Run Road.^[2] "Port Royal is ten miles north-east from New Castle and one mile from the Kentucky River."^[3]

New Castle is a home rule-class city in Henry County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. As of the 2010 census the population was 912.

The Kentucky River is a tributary of the Ohio River, 260 miles (418 km) long, in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. The river and its tributaries drain much of the central region of the state, with its upper course passing through the coal-mining regions of the Cumberland Mountains, and its lower course passing through the Bluegrass region in the north central part of the state. Its watershed encompasses about 7,000 square miles (18,000 km²). It supplies drinking water to about one-sixth of the population of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The elevation is 823 feet (251 m).

The ZIP code is 40058.

Demographics

At the census of 2010 the population of ZIP Code Tabulation Area 40058, which is centered on Port Royal, was 64.^[4]

The 2010 United States Census is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators serving to spot-check randomly selected neighborhoods and communities. As part of a drive to increase the count's accuracy, 635,000 temporary enumerators were hired. The population of the United States was counted as 308,745,538, a 9.7% increase from the 2000 Census. This was the first census in which all states recorded a population of over half a million, as well as the first in which all 100 largest cities recorded populations of over 200,000.

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics. These were introduced with the Census 2000 and continued with the 2010 Census. This new entity was developed to overcome the difficulties in precisely defining the land area covered by each ZIP code. Defining the extent of an area is necessary in order to tabulate census data for that area.

At the census of 2000 it was 79.

Notable resident

Port Royal has a notable resident, the writer Wendell Berry. His fictional community of Port William is based on Port Royal.^[5]

Wendell Berry Wendell Berry is an American writer of essays, fiction and poetry.

Wendell Erdman Berry is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.

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References

↑ Or "populated place", the term used by GNIS. Their Feature Detail Report includes the coordinates and elevation.
↑ Source: Google maps.
↑ Lewis Collins, Historical Sketches of Kentucky, (1848) (p. 348). The text continues, "[The town] contains two stores, one tavern, one tan yard, and four mechanics' shops."
↑ American Factfinder2
↑ Bernard W. Quetchenbach, Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century, University of Virginia Press, 2000. "Port William is the fictionalized version of Berry's Port Royal." (p. 130)

Coordinates: 38°33′19″N85°04′49″W / 38.55528°N 85.08028°W / 38.55528; -85.08028

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[1] Or "populated place", the term used by GNIS. Their Feature Detail Report includes the coordinates and elevation.

[2] Source: Google maps.

[3] Lewis Collins, Historical Sketches of Kentucky, (1848) (p. 348). The text continues, "[The town] contains two stores, one tavern, one tan yard, and four mechanics' shops."

[4] American Factfinder2

[5] Bernard W. Quetchenbach, Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century, University of Virginia Press, 2000. "Port William is the fictionalized version of Berry's Port Royal." (p. 130)

v t e Municipalities and communities of Henry County, Kentucky, United States
County seat: New Castle
Cities	Campbellsburg Eminence New Castle Pleasureville‡ Smithfield	Location of Henry County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities	Bethlehem Jericho Lockport Pendleton Port Royal Sulphur Turners Station
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties