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Country
  
United States

County
  
Magoffin

ZIP codes
  
41464

Elevation
  
268 m

Area code
  
606

State
  
Kentucky

Time zone
  
Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)

GNIS feature ID
  
502439

Local time
  
Thursday 7:41 PM

Royalton, Kentucky

Weather
  
18°C, Wind W at 2 km/h, 25% Humidity

Royalton is an unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky, United States. It lies along Route 7 southeast of the city of Salyersville, the county seat of Magoffin County. Its elevation is 879 feet (268 m). Although it is unincorporated it had a post office, with the ZIP code of 41464.

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Map of Royalton, KY 41465, USA

History

Royalton was established as a company town by the Dawkins Lumber Company of Ashland Kentucky who opened a mill there on August 1, 1920. They were financed by the Royal Bank of Canada for which the town is named.

The lumber company established a railroad, the Dawkins Line, in order to transport lumber. After the lumber industry left the coal industry became big in Royalton. A coal tipple was built and the railroad was put to use by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1930 and later by CSX. The coal industry has since moved on and the Dawkins Line was sold to R.J. Corman in 2002 and abandoned in 2004. After the rail corridor was abandoned, the former railroad right-of-way was converted to the Dawkins Line Rail Trail, which opened in 2013.

The Royalton post office was established on September 20, 1920. In 2011 the post office was closed, one of several thousand being eliminated by the US Postal Service across the country in an effort to save revenue.

References

Royalton, Kentucky Wikipedia