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West Point, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the West Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40177. It stands on Bee Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fort Knox quadrangle. 952 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

West Point within Hardin County

On record in West Point

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

West Point grew from 797 to 952 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
2010797
2020952+155 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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 West Point between 1997 and 2016, burning about 508 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOINTE BLVD FIRE
3 April 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWINDING CREEK FIRE
3 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEAVERS RUN FIRE
11 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of West Point: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Kosmos Cement DivisionStoneProducer
Kosmosdale PitStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Hardin 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
Howard1.2 miles14
Rose Terrace7.4 miles14
Gaffey Heights8.0 miles14
Prichard Place8.1 miles14
Dietz Acres9.2 miles15
Red Hill10.0 miles15
Radcliff11.0 miles15
Vine Grove Junction11.6 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 West PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2235649The 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 506467. 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.