Royalton is an unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky, United States.

A coal tipple was built and the railroad was put to use by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1930 and later by CSX.

The coal industry has since moved on and the Dawkins Line was sold to R.J. Corman in 2002 and abandoned in 2004.

[6] In 2011 the post office was closed, one of several thousand being eliminated by the US Postal Service across the country in an effort to save revenue.

This Magoffin County, Kentucky state location article is a stub.