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.
Population over time
3 figuresFountain 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 236 | |
| 2010 | 217 | -19 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 216 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Red Boiling Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Fountain Run quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 34 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LONG HOLLOW FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fountain Run | Zinc, Dolomite | Prospect | 1970 |
Storms near this place
11 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fountain Run | $150,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged several homes in the Fountain Run area. Elsewhere, numerous trees were downed. |
| February 2008 | Tornado (EF3) | Fountain Run | $30,000 | This 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 2013 | Lightning | Fountain Run | $20,000 | Local law enforcement relayed a report of a house in Fountain Run damaged by lightning. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fountain Run | - | Multiple trees were blown down in Fountain Run. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fountain Run | - | There were trees down in Fountain Run. |
| January 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fountain Run | - | Dispatch reported trees and power lines down. |
| January 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fountain Run | - | A tree was blown down near Browns Ford Boat Ramp. |
| April 2008 | Flood | Fountain Run | - | Sections of Kentucky Highways 100 and 678 were closed due to high water. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Fountain Run | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Fountain Run | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Fountain Run | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pikesville (historical) | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Lamb | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Flippin | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Akersville | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Jeffrey | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Gum Tree | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Bugtussle | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| Emberton | 8.5 miles | 11 |
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 Run | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q945800 | The 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.




