Flatwoods, Kentucky
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Location in Kentucky
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1860 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Kentucky | ||
| County : | Greenup County | ||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 31 ′ N , 82 ° 43 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 10,893 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 2,420.7 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 4.5 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 208 m | ||
| Postal code : | 41139 | ||
| Area code : | +1 606 | ||
| FIPS : | 21-27802 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0492225 | ||
| Website : | www.flatwoodsky.org | ||
| Mayor : | Bobby F. Crager | ||
Flatwoods is a US town near Ashland, Kentucky in Greenup County . The population was 10,983 in 2010. Flatwoods is part of the Huntington-Ashland-MetropolitanArea (MSA).
Flatwood's original place name was Advance . This was founded by the Methodists in 1860. The name was later changed to Cheap , after John Cheap (a blind Methodist minister). In 1938 the place got the current name Flatwoods.
The city has 6 radio stations or (apart from the national broadcasters) their broadcasting area. These are WKEE , The Dawg , The Plannet , Big Buck Country , WTCR and WLGC , as well as the TV station WSAZ 3 . The biggest tourist attraction in town or in the surrounding area is Greenbo Lake State Resort Park (25 minutes from Flatwoods). The town's best-known son is country singer and actor Billy Ray Cyrus .
sons and daughters of the town
- Billy Ray Cyrus (born 1961), country singer and actor
- Lynndie England (* 1982), member of the army who was involved in the torture scandal in Iraq