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Melbourne, Kentucky

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Newport-Fort Thomas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41059. It stands on Tug Creek. The Survey maps it on the Withamsville quadrangle. 458 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 502 feet above sea level.

Melbourne within Campbell County

On record in Melbourne

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Melbourne grew from 401 to 458 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
2010401
2020458+57 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

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 Melbourne: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brewer Co Plant No 10 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Campbell County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Melbourne in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMelbourne$1,000A power pole was downed.
April 2001HailMelbourne-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Campbell 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
Silver Grove1.3 miles19
Tug Fork (historical)1.9 miles19
Ross1.9 miles21
Camp Springs1.9 miles21
Fourmile (historical)2.4 miles13
Crestview2.7 miles19
Dodsworth Lane (historical)2.8 miles19
Winters Lane (historical)3.2 miles19

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 MelbourneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2361427The 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 498043. 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.

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.