Ghent, Kentucky
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41045. It stands on Black Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vevay South quadrangle. 363 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 486 feet above sea level.
On record in Ghent
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
Ghent Historic Districtlisted 1983- Grass Hillslisted 1975
Population over time
2 figuresGhent grew from 323 to 363 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 323 | |
| 2020 | 363 | +40 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1943 USGS Vevay South quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Vevay South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Vevay South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ghent in 2004, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
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 Ghent: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland Co. Hwy. Dept. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ghent in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ghent | $3,000 | Trees down. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ghent | $2,000 | A tree was downed onto some power lines. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Ghent | - | Quarter to near golf ball sized hail was reported. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Ghent | - | Several creeks and streams went out of their banks across the southern part of the county. High water was reported on a couple of roads. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Ghent | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Ghent | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Ghent | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockville (historical) | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Easterday | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Indian Hills | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Carson | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Langstaff | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Carrollton | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Prestonville | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Sanders | 8.2 miles | 8 |
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 Ghent | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1012247 | 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 492798. 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.






