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Alexandria, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Alexandria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41001. The Survey maps it on the Alexandria quadrangle. 10,341 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

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Alexandria within Campbell County

On record in Alexandria

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 records

Population over time

2 figures

Alexandria grew from 8,477 to 10,341 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20108,477
202010,341+1,864 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Evergreen Cemetery, Soldiers' Lot, 25 South Alexandria Pike, Southgate, Campbell County, KY
Evergreen Cemetery, Soldiers' Lot, 25 South Alexandria Pike, Southgate, Campbell County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Alexandria: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brush Creek ClayClayProspect
Silver Grove YardSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Campbell County

Storms near this place

51 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alexandria in 51 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 8 flash flood, 3 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$20,000Heavy tree damage occurred in a cemetery. Most of these trees were snapped off and uprooted. There was minor structural damage to roofs and shingles on a few residences. Damaging thunderstorms winds were determined to be the cause.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$10,000Numerous large trees were down in Alexandria and surrounding areas due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$10,000A tree fell on a house near Alexandria due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$10,000Numerous trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Flash FloodAlexandria$10,000A road near State Route 10 was washed out. High water closed several other roads throughout the county.
March 2008FloodAlexandria$10,000Several roads were flooded and closed, including Dodsworth Lane at State Routes 8 and 1998, Twelvemile Road in Oneonta, and State Route 9 at Interstate 275 in Highland Heights.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$10,000Trees downed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$8,000Trees were knocked down across the county.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Several trees were downed in the Alexandria area.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Numerous trees with 6 inch diameter trunks were knocked down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Numerous trees were downed in the Alexandria area.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000A large tree was downed and a porch was uplifted and blown downwind several hundred feet.
July 2010Flash FloodAlexandria$5,000Part of Lower Tug Fork Road was washed away by flood waters.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Trees were knocked down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Numerous trees downed.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Trees were blown down, one of which blew through a store window.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$3,000Trees and power lines downed.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$2,000Multiple power lines were snapped at the intersection of U.S. 27 and Poplar Ridge Road.
April 2007HailAlexandria$2,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$1,000A large, hardwood tree was split.
January 2012FloodAlexandria$1,000Several rural roads in the county were reported closed due to high water caused by recent heavy rain.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$1,000Large branches were reported broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
November 2007HailAlexandria$1,000no account filed
August 2024Flash FloodAlexandria-A road was closed due to high water flowing across it.
September 2018FloodAlexandria-A couple of roads were closed due to high water.
February 2018Flash FloodAlexandria-Multiple roads were closed throughout the county due to high water.
October 2016Flash FloodAlexandria-A few roads across Kenton County were closed due to high water.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-Large limbs were blown down in the eastern part of the county.
March 2006Flash FloodAlexandria-Numerous roads were flooded. A few homes sustained basement flooding in town.
July 2006Flash FloodAlexandria-Water was knee deep along Alexandria Pike.
May 2002Flash FloodAlexandria-Three roads were closed by high water in town.
June 2000HailAlexandria-Nickel hail was reported.
April 2025HailAlexandria-no account filed
April 2020HailAlexandria-no account filed
April 2018HailAlexandria-no account filed
August 2015HailAlexandria-no account filed
August 2015HailAlexandria-no account filed
August 2015HailAlexandria-no account filed
April 2012Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-no account filed
April 2012HailAlexandria-no account filed
July 2012HailAlexandria-no account filed
July 2012HailAlexandria-no account filed
July 2011HailAlexandria-no account filed
June 2011HailAlexandria-no account filed
June 2009HailAlexandria-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-no account filed
July 1998HailAlexandria-no account filed
June 1998HailAlexandria-no account filed
July 1997HailAlexandria-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Campbell County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hawthorne2.2 miles13
Poplar Thicket (historical)2.7 miles13
Fourmile (historical)2.8 miles13
Oakland (historical)2.8 miles13
Claryville2.8 miles13
Maple Valley (historical)2.8 miles13
Tug Fork (historical)3.1 miles19
Camp Springs3.2 miles21

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AlexandriaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q994809The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 485831. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.