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Bridgeport, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Frankfort census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40601. It stands on Armstrong Branch. The Survey maps it on the Frankfort West quadrangle. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

Bridgeport within Franklin County

On record in Bridgeport

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bridgeport between 1999 and 2010, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 March 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 November 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bridgeport: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Franklin County MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgeport in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
April 2016LightningBridgeport$20,000The Franklin County emergency manager reported that a lightning strike resulted in numerous power outages on Schofield Lane in southwest Franklin County.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-Trees were across Evergreen Road near Bridgeport Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-Trees were down on the 3600 block of Evergreen Road and at Bridgeport Road.
March 2017HailBridgeport-Trained spotters reported lots of hail up to the size of quarters covering Interstate 64.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-Trees were reported down on Interstate 64.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-The public reported via Twitter of a tree downed across Old Sheep Pen Road west of Frankfort.
January 2008Flash FloodBridgeport-Several roads were closed in Frankfort. Among them were Holmes Street, Old Lawrenceburg Road, and Cardwell Lane. U.S. Highway 127 south was down to one lane. Wilkerson Boulevard was covered by 8 inches of water.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Broadville Manor1.2 miles16
Evergreen2.2 miles16
Roberts (historical)2.7 miles13
Benson3.3 miles16
Scanland Springs Resort (historical)3.3 miles16
Choateville3.6 miles16
Fox Gap (historical)3.7 miles16
Kennebec3.8 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 BridgeportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4966558The 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 487891. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.