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.
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
Fort Duffieldlisted 1994
James Young House and Innlisted 1978- Applegate-Fisher Houselisted 1988
- Abraham Ditto Houselisted 1988
- Ditto-Prewitt Houselisted 1988
- Kentucky and Indiana Banklisted 1988
- West Point Historic Districtlisted 1996
- West Point Hotellisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresWest 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 797 | |
| 2020 | 952 | +155 (+19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 1936 USGS Vine Grove quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Vine Grove quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Fort Knox quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Vine Grove quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Fort Knox quadrangle1:25000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Fort Knox quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Fort Knox quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
16 since 1997Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | POINTE BLVD FIRE |
| 3 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WINDING CREEK FIRE |
| 3 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WEAVERS RUN FIRE |
| 11 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kosmos Cement Division | Stone | Producer | ||
| Kosmosdale Pit | Stone | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howard | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Rose Terrace | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Gaffey Heights | 8.0 miles | 14 | |
| Prichard Place | 8.1 miles | 14 | |
| Dietz Acres | 9.2 miles | 15 | |
| Red Hill | 10.0 miles | 15 | |
| Radcliff | 11.0 miles | 15 | |
| Vine Grove Junction | 11.6 miles | 15 |
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 Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2235649 | 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 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.









