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High Bridge, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Wilmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40390. The Survey maps it on the Wilmore quadrangle. 268 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 798 feet above sea level.

High Bridge within Jessamine County

On record in High Bridge

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

High Bridge grew from 242 to 268 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
2010242
2020268+26 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

High Bridge, 4 miles Southwest of Wilmore, High Bridge, Jessamine County, KY
High Bridge, 4 miles Southwest of Wilmore, High Bridge, Jessamine County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of High Bridge between 2001 and 2019, burning about 84 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
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
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 October 2019Equipment and vehicle use78 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHINN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jessamine 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 High Bridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite. 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
Chinn MineFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BaritePast ProducerBarite, Fluorite

Every working recorded in Jessamine County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names High Bridge in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2010FloodHigh Bridge$500,000The Kentucky River at High Bridge Lock crested around 42.6 feet at 1 PM EST on May 4. Flood stage at High Bridge is 30 feet. Major flooding occurs at this level, with a large section of Wilmore flooded.
May 2010FloodHigh Bridge$100,000Six to eight inches of rain fell over Mercer county from May 1-2. This caused major flooding on the Kentucky River that lasted many days before receding.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHigh Bridge$45,000Jessamine County emergency manager reported numerous power poles and several large trees downed due to severe thunderstorm winds.
November 2017Thunderstorm WindHigh Bridge$20,000A tree fell on a residence in High Bridge.

Every storm recorded in Jessamine 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
Pekin (historical)3.8 miles12
Wilmore4.0 miles12
Oakdale (historical)5.6 miles12
Chattersville (historical)5.7 miles15
Hall6.0 miles15
Jessamine6.3 miles15
Hanly6.8 miles15
Vineyard7.1 miles15

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 High BridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5754956The 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 494178. 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.