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Bloomfield, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bloomfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40008. It stands on Hinkle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bloomfield quadrangle. 961 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Bloomfield within Nelson County

On record in Bloomfield

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bloomfield grew from 838 to 961 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
2010838
2020961+123 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Storms near this place

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Estimated 60 mph wind gust near Bloomfield.
January 2023Flash FloodBloomfield-A water rescue occurred on Springfield Road in Bloomfield.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Dispatch reported that a couple of trees were down on the 800 block of Taylorsville Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Public reported a tree down in the area.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Several trees and limbs were reported down in the northeastern part of the county.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Trees were reported to have blown down in the area.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-The public reported trees uprooted due to severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Local law enforcement reported downed trees blocking the road near the intersection of Highway 62 and Highway 55.
June 2017Flash FloodBloomfield-Law enforcement reported that parts of Highway 62 south of Bloomfield became impassable due to flash flooding and was briefly closed.
April 2015HailBloomfield-The public reported penny size hail near Bloomfield.
July 2015Flash FloodBloomfield-A broadcast media meteorologist relayed a report that high water was flowing over KY 55.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Broadcast media reported estimated gusts of 60 mph.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-The Nelson county highway dept. reported trees down around Bloomfield on Highways 162 and 62.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Thunderstorm winds downed power lines.
April 2025HailBloomfield-no account filed
March 2024HailBloomfield-no account filed
April 2017HailBloomfield-no account filed
April 1999HailBloomfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nelson 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
Hahntown (historical)3.1 miles9
Sol Bloom (historical)3.1 miles9
Fairfield3.9 miles7
Plum Run (historical)4.0 miles7
Beech Fork (historical)5.0 miles9
Chaplin5.1 miles9
Humphrey (historical)5.9 miles9
Holt Ridge (historical)7.0 miles8

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 BloomfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2794301The 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 487497. 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.

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.