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Ekron, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Brandenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40117. The Survey maps it on the Guston quadrangle. 175 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Ekron within Meade County

Population over time

3 figures

Ekron grew from 170 to 175 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
2000170
2010135-35 (-21%)
2020175+40 (+30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

24 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Ekron between 2001 and 2012, burning about 110 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
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 April 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMEADE-OLIN PARK FIRE
15 April 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ekron in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 10 injuries. 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 1996Tornado (F1)Ekron10 hurt, $500,000no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindEkron$10,000Power lines were reported down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindEkron-A pillar was knocked off of a front porch, and a shed was moved of its foundation.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindEkron-A tree was blocking two lanes of the road near Farris Road and Shumate Road Crossing.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindEkron-Trees were down on the 600 block of Smith Road, McCoy Road, and Bright Lane.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEkron-There were trees down on power lines.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEkron-There were multiple trees down.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindEkron-Local law enforcement reported several trees and power lines down across central Meade County.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindEkron-The Meade County emergency manager reported power lines down near Ekron.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindEkron-Two utility poles were blown down near the intersection of Hwy. 710 and Fred Fackler Rd.
May 2016HailEkron-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindEkron-no account filed
April 2003HailEkron-no account filed
February 2002HailEkron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Johnstown (historical)2.8 miles14
Buck Grove2.8 miles14
Guston3.4 miles14
Brandenburg Station3.4 miles14
Midway3.5 miles14
Hillgrove3.5 miles14
Haysville3.8 miles14
Doe Valley3.8 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 EkronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2454594The 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 491600. 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.

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.