Middletown, Kentucky
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Southeast Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40243. The Survey maps it on the Jeffersontown quadrangle. 9,706 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.
On record in Middletown
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 12 records
Abell Houselisted 1980
Bank of Middletownlisted 1983
Beynroth Houselisted 1984
William Bull Houselisted 1980
Chenoweth Fort-Springhouselisted 1975
Davis Tavernlisted 1983
Henry Frank Houselisted 1980
Head Houselisted 1974
Middletown Innlisted 1984
Middletown United Methodist Churchlisted 1980- Jefferson Marders Houselisted 1983
- George B. Yenowine Houselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresMiddletown grew from 7,218 to 9,706 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 | 7,218 | |
| 2020 | 9,706 | +2,488 (+34%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 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.
- 1907 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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 Middletown: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avoca Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middletown in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | $200,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Lightning | Middletown | $10,000 | A lightning strike caused a house fire on Waters Edge Drive. |
| July 1996 | Lightning | Middletown | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | $2,000 | Windows were cracked at Eastern High School |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | Large trees were uprooted in a yard in Middletown. |
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | Middletown | - | Heavy rain caused Evergreen Road to become impassable between Shelbyville Road and Ridge Road. |
| February 2018 | Flash Flood | Middletown | - | Amateur radio operators reported numerous reports of flooded roadways across much of Louisville metro including water rescues in the Anchorage area. Manhole covers reported off in the downtown area. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | The public relayed a report of a large Hickory tree down along Harrods Creek Road. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Middletown | - | Heavy rains caused creeks in parts of eastern Jefferson County to run out of their banks. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas Hills East | 0.5 miles | 17 | |
| Griffytown | 0.7 miles | 16 | |
| Woodland Hills | 0.9 miles | 17 | |
| Douglass Hills | 0.9 miles | 17 | |
| Sycamore | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Blue Ridge Manor | 1.3 miles | 17 | |
| Anchorage | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Wildwood | 1.8 miles | 17 |
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 Middletown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2115061 | 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 498159. 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.










