Rockcastle
Rockcastle County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,037. Its county seat is Mt. Vernon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: County with 16,000 residents
- Description: county in Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Rockcastle County”, “Rockcastle County, Kentucky”, and “Rockcastle County, KY”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Linville.
Lake Linville
Reservoir
Photo: ChristopherM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Linville is a 356-acre reservoir in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was created in 1968 by the construction of the earthen Renfro Dam, 72 feet high with a length of 1,100 feet, owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Vernon and Renfro Valley.
Mount Vernon
Town
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Mount Vernon is a home rule-class city and the seat of Rockcastle County in southeastern Kentucky. The intersection of U.S. Routes 25 and 150 is located here.
Renfro Valley
Hamlet
Renfro Valley is a neighborhood located just off Interstate 75 at the junction of U.S. Route 25 and Kentucky Route 2793 north of Mount Vernon, the county seat of Rockcastle County, Kentucky, United States.
Wildie
Hamlet
Wildie is an unincorporated community located in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, United States. It is located on Kentucky Route 1786 southeast of Roundstone.
Rockcastle
- Categories: county of Kentucky and locality
- Location: Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.3886° or 37° 23′ 19″ northLongitude
-84.3254° or 84° 19′ 32″ westPopulation
16,000Elevation
1,306 feet (398 metres)Open location code
869Q9MQF+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 316958962OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
4306470Wikidata ID
Q506385
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Rockcastle” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Rockcastle County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة روكاستل”
- Armenian: “Ռոքքասլ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Rockcastle”
- Basque: “Rockcastle konderria”
- Bavarian: “Rockcastle County, Kentucky”
- Bavarian: “Rockcastle County”
- Bishnupriya: “রকক্যাসেল কাউন্টি, কেন্টাকি”
- Bishnupriya: “রকক্যাসেল কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Роккасъл”
- Catalan: “comtat de Rockcastle”
- Cebuano: “Rockcastle County”
- Chechen: “Роккасл (гуо, Кентукки)”
- Chechen: “Роккасл”
- Chinese: “Rockcastle Kūn”
- Chinese: “罗克卡斯尔县”
- Chinese: “羅克卡斯爾縣”
- Chinese: “羅克卡斯爾郡”
- Dutch: “Rockcastle County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Rockcastle”
- Esperanto: “Rockcastle County”
- Estonian: “Rockcastle’i maakond”
- Finnish: “Rockcastlen piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Rockcastle”
- French: “Comté de Rockcastle”
- French: “Rockcastle County”
- Ganda: “Rockcastle County, Kentucky”
- Ganda: “Rockcastle County”
- Georgian: “როკ-კასლის ოლქი”
- German: “Rockcastle County”
- Gilaki: “راک کاسل ٚ شأرستان (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “راک کاسل ٚ شأرستان”
- Hungarian: “Rockcastle megye”
- Irish: “Contae Rockcastle”
- Italian: “contea di Rockcastle”
- Italian: “Contea di Rockcastle”
- Italian: “Rockcastle County”
- Japanese: “ロックキャッスル郡”
- Korean: “록캐슬군”
- Low German: “Rockcastle County”
- Mazanderani: “راک کاسل شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Rockcastle Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rockcastle Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rockcastle County”
- Norwegian: “Rockcastle County”
- Persian: “شهرستان راک کاسل، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “شهرستان راک کاسل”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Rockcastle”
- Portuguese: “condado de Rockcastle”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Rockcastle”
- Portuguese: “Rockcastle County”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Rockcastle, Kentucky”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Rockcastle”
- Russian: “Роккасл”
- Sardinian: “contea de Rockcastle”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rockcastle County”
- Serbian: “Округ Рокасл”
- Serbian: “Округ Роккасл”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rockcastle County, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rockcastle County”
- Spanish: “condado de Rockcastle”
- Spanish: “Condado de Rockcastle”
- Spanish: “Rockcastle County”
- Swedish: “Rockcastle County”
- Tatar: “Роккасл (округ, Кентуки)”
- Tatar: “Роккасл”
- Tumbuka: “Rockcastle County, Kentucky”
- Tumbuka: “Rockcastle County”
- Turkish: “Rockcastle County, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Rockcastle County, Ky.”
- Turkish: “Rockcastle County, KY”
- Turkish: “Rockcastle County”
- Turkish: “Rockcastle ilçesi, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Rockcastle ilçesi, Ky.”
- Turkish: “Rockcastle ilçesi, KY”
- Turkish: “Rockcastle ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Роккасл”
- Urdu: “راک کیسل کاؤنٹی، کینٹکی”
- Urdu: “راک کیسل کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Rockcastle”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Rockcastle, Kentucky”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Rockcastle”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Rockcastle, Kentucky”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Rockcastle”
- Welsh: “Rockcastle County, Kentucky”
- Welsh: “Rockcastle County”
- Western Panjabi: “راککاسل کاؤنٹی”
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