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Fort Knox US Bullion Depository Kentucky

Built in 1936 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The United States Bullion Depository, often known as Fort Knox, is a fortified vault building located next to the United States Army post of Fort Knox, Kentucky. It is operated by the United States Department of the Treasury.”
Wikipedia article United States Bullion Depository, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 89 National Register listings published here for Hardin County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1936, Neoclassical architecture, by Louis A. Simon.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. US Bullion Depository, Fort Knox, Kentucky - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Gold Vault Rd. and Bullion Blvd., Fort Knox, 40121
When was it listed? February 1988
Category. building
Census division. Fort Knox
When was it built? 1936
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Louis A. Simon
National Register reference number. 88000056 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fort Knox US Bullion Depository Kentucky between 2004 and 2010, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Knox US Bullion Depository Kentucky: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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
	Flaherty-Otter Creek Sandstone Pit	Silica	Past Producer
	Fort Knox Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Louisville-Nashville Turnpike Segment	4.9 miles	1996
Vine Grove Historic District	5.2 miles	1988
Stader Hotel	5.2 miles	1988
Haycraft Inn	5.5 miles	1988
McKinney-Helm House	6.1 miles	1988
Fort Duffield	7.7 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000056 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hardin County	All 89 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.