West Point
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city in Kentucky, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kentucky
- County
- Hardin
- Total
- 2.69 sq mi (6.97 km )
- Land
- 2.66 sq mi (6.90 km )
- Water
- 0.023 sq mi (0.06 km )
- Elevation
- 436 ft (133 m)
- Density
- 357.2/sq mi (137.93/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 21-81930
- Gnis feature id
- 0506467
- Website
- westpoint .ky .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- West Point
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Hardin County
- Population
- 952
- Area
- 1.432999
- Elevation
- 133
- Body of water
- Salt River
- Official website
- www.westpointky.org
- Households
- 382
- Dialing code
- 502
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- postal code
- 40177
- inception
- 1789-00-00
- P8168
- Radical 174
- water as percent of area
- 0.4565
- per capita income
- 21179
- Commons category
- West Point, Kentucky
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Encyclopedic overview
West Point is a home rule-class city in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States, near the edge of Fort Knox military reservation on Dixie Highway. It is located in a former meander bend of the Ohio River. The population was 952 as of the 2020 Census, up from 797 from the 2010 census, but still down from 1,100 at the 2000 census.
West Point is part of the Elizabethtown–Fort Knox Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “West Point” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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