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Erlanger, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Covington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41018. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle. 19,611 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Erlanger within Kenton County

On record in Erlanger

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Erlanger between 2010 and 2018, burning about 45 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
19 March 2018Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINDEPENDENCE RAILROAD
2 November 2010Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHERBOURNE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kenton 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 Erlanger: 1 producer. 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
Constance YardStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Erlanger in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 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 2019Flash FloodErlanger$20,000Water was flowing down Stephenson Avenue. Several cars were submerged in the water.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindErlanger$10,000A roof was lifted off a garage along Woodlyn Hills Drive in Erlanger. A pine tree was also uprooted.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindErlanger$10,000A large tree, about two feet in diameter, fell on a roof of a house.
April 2006HailErlanger$10,000no account filed
June 2005HailErlanger$8,000Trees were also knocked down across the northern part of the county. A tree fell on a car in Covington, causing some damage.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindErlanger$3,000Trees were downed.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindErlanger$3,000Trees were knocked down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindErlanger$3,000Trees downed.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindErlanger$2,000A tree and power lines were knocked down along McAlpin Avenue in Erlanger.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindErlanger$2,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindErlanger$1,000A tree was downed along Circlewood Drive.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindErlanger$1,000A tree was uprooted.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindErlanger$1,000Large branches were reported broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindErlanger$1,000A 60 mph gust was estimated.
November 2007HailErlanger$1,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindErlanger$500A six inch diameter limb was knocked down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindErlanger$500A tree was downed near Turkey Foot Road and Colony Drive.
August 2021Flash FloodErlanger-Several inches of water were flowing across Narrows Road.
June 2009HailErlanger-One inch to one and a quarter inch hail was reported.
April 1998HailErlanger-Hail accumulated several inches across the northern part of the county. Three inches of hail remained on the ground at 700 am EST.
April 2025HailErlanger-no account filed
March 2019HailErlanger-no account filed
April 2018HailErlanger-no account filed
April 2013HailErlanger-no account filed
May 2003HailErlanger-no account filed
August 2003HailErlanger-no account filed
February 2002HailErlanger-no account filed
May 2000HailErlanger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kenton 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
Elsmere0.4 miles18
Edgewood1.0 miles18
Crestview Hills1.1 miles18
Lakeside Park2.1 miles18
Crescent Park2.3 miles18
Crescent Springs2.6 miles18
Summit Hills Heights2.6 miles18
Ridgeview Heights2.9 miles11

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 ErlangerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1998355The 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 491808. 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.