Flatwoods, Kentucky
| Flatwoods, Kentucky | |
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| City | |
B.F. Crager Park in Flatwoods
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| Nickname(s): Good Neighbor Community | |
 Location in the state of Kentucky |
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| Coordinates: 38°31′23″N 82°43′10″W / 38.52306°N 82.71944°WCoordinates: 38°31′23″N 82°43′10″W / 38.52306°N 82.71944°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kentucky |
| County | Greenup |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ron Fields (D) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3.2 sq mi (8.4 km2) |
| • Land | 3.2 sq mi (8.4 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 682 ft (208 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 7,423 |
| • Density | 2,286/sq mi (882.8/km2) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 41139 |
| Area code(s) | 606 |
| FIPS code | 21-27802 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0492225 |
| Website | www |
Flatwoods is a home rule-class city in Greenup County, Kentucky, United States. Flatwoods is considered a suburb of nearby Ashland, although Ashland itself is located in neighboring Boyd County. The population of Flatwoods was 7,423 at the 2010 census, making Flatwoods the largest city in Greenup County. Flatwoods is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 287,702.
Flatwoods is a home rule-class city. Locally, Flatwoods is considered to be a bedroom community, as it has no large employer within the city. Many residents work for CSX Transportation, AK Steel, Marathon Oil, King's Daughters Medical Center or Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital.
The area now known as Flatwoods was originally named "Advance": Advance Methodist Church formed a Sunday school beginning in 1860. The name was later changed to "Cheap", after John Cheap, a blind clergyman. The original farming community returned to the name of "Advance" when a post office was established in 1918. In 1938, the post office was renamed "Flatwoods", and the town was incorporated the same year under that name. Flatwoods is named for the area's unique topography, a belt of flat wooded land in the ancient Teays River valley on an elevation of approximately 650 feet (200 m) or higher, just south of and 150 feet (46 m) higher than the Ohio River valley. The availability of flat level land and low tax rates made Flatwoods a local hot spot of new construction in the 1950s and 1960s, when many upper-middle-class tract housing developments were built and quickly inhabited. A main contributor to Flatwoods' growth was the fact that nearby Ashland had developed much of its available land prior to 1960, with little new construction possible within its corporation limits.
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