Editing Flatwoods, Kentucky (section)

==History==
The area now known as Flatwoods was originally named "Advance":<ref name=SOS>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Flatwoods, Kentucky". Accessed 25 July 2013.</ref> Advance Methodist Church formed a Sunday school beginning in 1860. The name was later changed to "Cheap", after John Cheap, a blind clergyman.<ref>{{cite book| last=Rennick| first=Robert M.| title=Kentucky Place Names| date=28 August 2013| publisher=University Press of Kentucky| isbn=0-8131-4401-9|page=199}}</ref> The original farming community returned to the name of "Advance" when a post office was established in 1918. In 1938, the post office was renamed "Flatwoods", and the town was incorporated the same year under that name. Flatwoods is named for the area's unique topography, a belt of flat wooded land in the ancient [[Teays River]] valley on an elevation of approximately {{convert|650|ft}} or higher, just south of and {{convert|150|ft}} higher than the [[Ohio River]] valley. The availability of flat level land and low tax rates made Flatwoods a local hot spot of [[Suburbanization|new construction]] in the 1950s and 1960s, when many upper-middle-class tract housing developments were built and quickly inhabited. A main contributor to Flatwoods' growth was the fact that nearby Ashland had developed much of its available land prior to 1960, with little new construction possible within its corporation limits.<ref>[http://www.flatwoodsky.org/ About Flatwoods] Retrieved on 2010-05-29</ref>