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Mount Washington, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mount Washington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40047. It stands on Mulberry Run. The Survey maps it on the Mount Washington quadrangle. 18,090 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Mount Washington within Bullitt County

On record in Mount Washington

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Washington grew from 9,117 to 18,090 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
20109,117
202018,090+8,973 (+98%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Mount Washington between 1997 and 2014, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning13 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMARKWELL RD. FIRE
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySKYVIEW
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPORTER FIRE
20 March 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBROAD RUN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullitt County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Washington in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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 1995HailMount Washington-Public reports three-quarters inch hail.

Every storm recorded in Bullitt 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
Smithville3.1 miles15
Whitfield5.1 miles12
Solitude5.3 miles11
Hebron Estates6.4 miles17
Hebron (historical)6.6 miles17
Zoneton6.7 miles17
Cedar Grove7.0 miles12
Pioneer Village7.0 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 Mount WashingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2667318The 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 498905. 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.

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.