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Anchorage, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the East Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40223. The Survey maps it on the Anchorage quadrangle. 2,500 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Anchorage within Jefferson County

On record in Anchorage

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 of 37 shown

Every listing in Jefferson County

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Anchorage grew from 2,264 to 2,500 between 2000 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
20002,264
20102,348+84 (+4%)
20202,500+152 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

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 Anchorage: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Avoca QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crestwood Mine UndergroundStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anchorage in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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 2018Thunderstorm WindAnchorage-The public reported trees down at Anchorage School and Anchorage Presbyterian Church.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindAnchorage-The public submitted a picture via Facebook of a large portion of a tree snapped off.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindAnchorage-The public reported a large tree downed across a railroad track near Anchorage.
June 2011FloodAnchorage-An NWS employee reported around 1.5 inches of rain within an hour and one half with minor street flooding.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindAnchorage-Numerous trees were down and power outages were reported across Jefferson County.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindAnchorage-Trees were downed.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindAnchorage-Trees were downed and were blocking roads.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindAnchorage-no account filed
April 2005HailAnchorage-no account filed
November 2005HailAnchorage-no account filed
November 2005HailAnchorage-no account filed
November 2005HailAnchorage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Berrytown0.8 miles16
Griffytown1.1 miles16
Lakeland1.1 miles16
Middletown1.5 miles17
O'Bannon1.8 miles16
Woodland Hills1.9 miles17
Avoca1.9 miles12
Keeneland1.9 miles16

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 AnchorageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2111634The 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 485930. 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.