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Hardin, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Benton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42048. It stands on Ellison Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hardin quadrangle. 580 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Hardin within Marshall County

On record in Hardin

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

Population over time

2 figures

Hardin fell from 615 to 580 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.

YearPeople Change
2010615
2020580-35 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Hardin between 1998 and 2014, burning about 235 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 ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1

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
28 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRUSHY CR
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2014Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry305 NANNIE NEAL RD.
2 April 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2009Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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 Hardin: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Jonathan Creek ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hardin in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHardin$90,000A long line of damaging straight-line winds occurred in southern Marshall County. Emergency management reported an overturned camper on Sid Darnell Road, while broadcast media reported multiple trees uprooted near the intersection of Murray Hwy and Union Hill Rd. ||An NWS damage survey found straight line thunderstorm wind damage impacted parts of southeast Marshall County, KY, on the evening of Friday, May 16, 2025. Impacted communities included Hardin, Olive, and Aurora. Estimated wind speeds were 74 to 85mph. Most damage was from scattered downed tree limbs and uprooted trees including several uprooted trees on Liberty School Rd.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindHardin$50,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindHardin$34,000Several trees were blown down, completely blocking a side street. A few power poles were snapped. A barn was severely damaged, and at least ten acres of corn were flattened.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindHardin$20,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindHardin$10,000Near the Calloway County border, there were six power poles down due to winds estimated around 70 MPH. Kentucky Route 80 was closed between Hardin and Aurora due to downed power poles.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHardin$5,000Siding was blown off a house in Hardin. A trained spotter estimated winds gusted to 60 mph at the Eggners Ferry Bridge on U.S. Highway 68 at Kentucky Lake.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHardin$2,000Large tree limbs were blown down near Hardin.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHardin$1,000Numerous small branches were blown down on Highway 402 between Hardin and Aurora.
April 2013Heavy RainHardin-The 36-hour rainfall total was 4.25 inches.
December 2008Heavy RainHardin-Water was over several roads in Marshall County.
September 2006HailHardin-Hail up to the size of nickels was accompanied by wind gusts from 50 to 55 MPH.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHardin-Large tree limbs were blown down.
March 2010HailHardin-no account filed
April 2009HailHardin-no account filed
April 2007HailHardin-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindHardin-no account filed
May 2006HailHardin-no account filed
February 2000FloodHardin-no account filed
May 2000HailHardin-no account filed
April 1998HailHardin-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindHardin-no account filed
May 1996FloodHardin-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindHardin-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHardin-no account filed
May 1995HailHardin-no account filed
May 1995HailHardin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Union Hill (historical)1.3 miles13
Joppa1.6 miles13
Liberty (historical)2.2 miles13
Yancy Darnell (historical)2.9 miles13
South Marshall2.9 miles13
Monkey Den (historical)3.0 miles13
Olive3.1 miles13
Glade3.8 miles13

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 HardinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2280162The 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 493717. 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.