Parksville, Kentucky

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Parksville is a small unincorporated community on the Chaplin River in south central Boyle County, Kentucky, United States. The global position of Parksville is 37.597N latitude and -84.891W longitude. Elevation is 1,083 feet above sea level.

Parksville was founded by James Parks who is buried in the Parksville Cemetery. It is located near the geographical center of the state of Kentucky at the intersection of highway 300 and highway 34.

Parksville had a major railroad depot for the county until 1970. Passengers would travel 10 miles from Danville to board the L&N Railroad car. Freight was also shipped from this depot. A small lake, known as Tank Pond, was built in 1920 by the railroad southwest of town for the purpose of refilling steam locomotive engines.

Today, Parksville has a post office, a general store which also sells sandwiches and gasoline (Operated for many years by the Feather family) a Baptist Church and a Church of Christ, a small sit down restaurant, a two engine fire department and a volunteer rescue squad and several unoccupied commercial buildings.