Port Royal is an unincorporated communityOr "populated place", the term used by GNIS. Their Feature Detail Report includes the coordinates and elevation. in north-eastern Henry County, Kentucky, United States.
Location
The community's center is the intersection of State Highway 193 and Cane Run Road.Source: Google maps. "Port Royal is ten miles north-east from New Castle and one mile from the Kentucky River."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."
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.American Factfinder2
At the census of 2000 it was 79.
Notable resident
Prior to his death in 2026, the community was home to writer Wendell Berry. His fictional community of Port William is based on Port Royal.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)
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