Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 107
Land area (2000): 0.116080 sq. miles (0.300646 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.116080 sq. miles (0.300646 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64360
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.551773 N, 83.785660 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Port William
Wikipedia
Port William may refer to several places:
- Port William, Falkland Islands, an inlet in the Falkland Islands
- Port William, New Zealand, an inlet on Stewart Island
- Port William, Dumfries and Galloway, a fishing village in Scotland
- Port William, Ohio, a village in the U.S. state of Ohio
- Port William, Kentucky, a fictional location in the writing of Wendell Berry
Port William, Kentucky is a fictional rural town found in each of the novels, short stories, and some poems by Wendell Berry. The larger region, set along the western bank of the Kentucky River, consists of Port William proper and several outlying farms and settlements around the also-fictional Dawe's Landing, Squire's Landing, Goforth, and Cotman Ridge. The town is set about "twelve miles or better" south of the fictional town of Hargrave and the Ohio River.
It is generally acknowledged that Port William is a fiction inspired by Berry's own hometown of Port Royal, Kentucky—and that Hargrave is the fictional form of Carrollton, Kentucky, a larger town located at the confluence of the Kentucky and Ohio rivers. Carrollton itself was originally known as Port William.