Rockdale, Kentucky

Rockdale
Unincorporated community
Rockdale Location within the state of Kentucky
Coordinates: 38°25′8″N 82°41′53″W / 38.41889°N 82.69806°W / 38.41889; -82.69806Coordinates: 38°25′8″N 82°41′53″W / 38.41889°N 82.69806°W / 38.41889; -82.69806
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
County	Boyd
Elevation	656 ft (200 m)
Population (2000)
• Total	288,649
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
GNIS feature ID	502159

Rockdale is an unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States,^[1] located south of Ashland. It is located on Midland Trail (original U.S. Route 60) at its intersection of Kentucky Route 538 and corridor into the city of Ashland. It was mostly a rural area until the 1970s, when a large subdivision began development, with several hundred tract houses.

Rockdale is a part of the Huntington-Ashland Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 287,702. New definitions from February 28, 2013 placed the population at 363,000.^[2]

Education

Boyd County Public Schools

References

External links

Chamber of Commerce

Municipalities and communities of Boyd County, Kentucky, United States

County seat: Catlettsburg

Cities	Ashland Catlettsburg

CDPs	Cannonsburg Westwood

Unincorporated communities	Burnaugh Coalton Durbin England Hill Garner Ironville Kavanaugh Leach Railroad Station Little Garner Lockwood Meads Normal Peterman Hill Princess Rockdale Rush‡ Summit Unity Winslow

Ghost towns	Burgess Railroad Station Neal

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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