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Fountain Run, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fountain Run census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42133. The Survey maps it on the Fountain Run quadrangle. 216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Fountain Run within Monroe County

Population over time

3 figures

Fountain Run fell from 236 to 216 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
2000236
2010217-19 (-8%)
2020216-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Run between 2005 and 2010, burning about 60 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 March 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 October 2010Debris and open burning34 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONG HOLLOW FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Fountain Run: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Dolomite. 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
Fountain RunZinc, DolomiteProspect1970

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain Run in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 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
January 2008Thunderstorm WindFountain Run$150,000Thunderstorm winds damaged several homes in the Fountain Run area. Elsewhere, numerous trees were downed.
February 2008Tornado (EF3)Fountain Run$30,000This EF3 tornado crossed into a wooded section of Monroe County from Allen County, and lifted near Highway 87 south of the town of Fountain Run. Several outbuildings were destroyed and a car was flipped on Circle D Lane. On Akersville Road, fences were downed and about 200,000 log feet of timber were knocked down.
July 2013LightningFountain Run$20,000Local law enforcement relayed a report of a house in Fountain Run damaged by lightning.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFountain Run-Multiple trees were blown down in Fountain Run.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFountain Run-There were trees down in Fountain Run.
January 2022Thunderstorm WindFountain Run-Dispatch reported trees and power lines down.
January 2021Thunderstorm WindFountain Run-A tree was blown down near Browns Ford Boat Ramp.
April 2008FloodFountain Run-Sections of Kentucky Highways 100 and 678 were closed due to high water.
June 2023HailFountain Run-no account filed
June 2011HailFountain Run-no account filed
June 2009HailFountain Run-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Pikesville (historical)4.3 miles11
Lamb4.5 miles9
Flippin4.9 miles11
Akersville5.1 miles11
Jeffrey7.0 miles8
Gum Tree7.8 miles11
Bugtussle8.0 miles11
Emberton8.5 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 Fountain RunAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q945800The 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 492374. 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.