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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.

Middletown within Jefferson County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Middletown 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.

YearPeople Change
20107,218
20209,706+2,488 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avoca QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMiddletown$200,000no account filed
May 2005LightningMiddletown$10,000A lightning strike caused a house fire on Waters Edge Drive.
July 1996LightningMiddletown$10,000no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMiddletown$2,000Windows were cracked at Eastern High School
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMiddletown-Large trees were uprooted in a yard in Middletown.
July 2023Flash FloodMiddletown-Heavy rain caused Evergreen Road to become impassable between Shelbyville Road and Ridge Road.
February 2018Flash FloodMiddletown-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 2015Thunderstorm WindMiddletown-The public relayed a report of a large Hickory tree down along Harrods Creek Road.
May 2004Flash FloodMiddletown-Heavy rains caused creeks in parts of eastern Jefferson County to run out of their banks.
July 2004HailMiddletown-no account filed
April 2001HailMiddletown-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMiddletown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Douglas Hills East0.5 miles17
Griffytown0.7 miles16
Woodland Hills0.9 miles17
Douglass Hills0.9 miles17
Sycamore1.2 miles17
Blue Ridge Manor1.3 miles17
Anchorage1.5 miles16
Wildwood1.8 miles17

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 MiddletownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2115061The 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.