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Housing Units (2000): 3015
Land area (2000): 20.916816 sq. miles (54.174302 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.027803 sq. miles (0.072010 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 20.944619 sq. miles (54.246312 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28540
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 37.892809 N, 85.974709 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 40121
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Fort Knox
Wikipedia
Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. The 109,000 acre (170 sq mi, 441 km²) base covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties. It currently holds the Army human resources Center of Excellence to include the Army Human Resources Command, United States Army Cadet Command and the United States Army Accessions Command. For 60 years, Fort Knox was the home of the U.S. Army Armor Center and the U.S. Army Armor School (now moved to Fort Benning), and was used by both the Army and the Marine Corps to train crews on the M1 Abrams main battle tank. The history of the U.S. Army's Cavalry and Armored forces, and of General George S. Patton's career, can be found at the General George Patton Museum on the grounds of Fort Knox.
The fort is best known as the site of the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves.
Fort Knox, now Fort Knox State Park or Fort Knox State Historic Site, is located on the western bank of the Penobscot River in the town of Prospect, Maine, about from the mouth of the river. Built between 1844 and 1869, it was the first fort in Maine built of granite (instead of wood). It is named after Major General Henry Knox, the first U.S. Secretary of War and Commander of Artillery during the American Revolutionary War, who at the end of his life lived not far away in Thomaston. The fort was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970, as a virtually intact example of a mid-19th century granite coastal fortification. Fort Knox also serves as the entry site for the observation tower of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge that opened to the public on May 19, 2007.
Fort Knox is a nationally syndicated comic strip written and drawn by Paul Jon Boscacci. It centers on the life of the Knox family: Major Joe Knox, his wife Jane Knox and his two sons, Donald and Wesley. The family has moved to fictional Fort Lincoln, where they must adjust to a new base, a new town and a new school.
The strip was picked up for syndication by the Washington Post Writers Group in October 2009. The strip's art has been used by the USO for a CARE package coloring contest and has been featured on the US Army website as well.
Fort Knox may refer to:
- Fort Knox United States Army post in Kentucky
- Fort Knox, Kentucky, census-designated place
- Fort Knox (Maine), historic fort in Maine, United States
- United States Bullion Depository located at Fort Knox
- Fort Knox (comic)
Usage examples of "fort knox".
Because there had been an inexplicable (and he had learned, nexcusable) delay in the delivery of a van-mounted avionic naintenance facility to Colonel Tom Warner's 3087th Aviation Company (Armed Helicopter) at Fort Knox, it had been necessary for him to go to Lexington to kick a little lead out of dead asses.
The gleaming modern sprawl of Fort Knox looked almost soft in the light mist.
I suppose we are about to learn if theyre as good as Fort Knox thinks they are.
It's probably in a Metro-Magnum can and they guard those like Fort Knox.
They had met at Fort Knox long ago as second lieutenants, and Phil believed Lowell's testimony in his behalf was the reason he had been acquitted at his courtmartial.
Suddenly he opened his eyes, looked at the President and said: 'Just how safe are the vaults in Fort Knox?
Except for his Basic Training-at Fort Knox or Fort Bragg-Owen had never been out of New England.
It's on Fort Knox and the joke is it's guarded tighter than the gold.
But by 1997, the intelligence community budget had shrunk to what it had been in 1980, during the last years of the Carter administration and just before the Reagan administration gave the spooks the key to Fort Knox.
Grandfather had brought back some very interesting objects from almost mythical places---the great library of Alexandria, the pyramid of Cheops, the Kremlin, the Vatican, Fort Knox--all the storehouses of treasure and knowledge which existed thousands of years ago.
I could turn it off once I was inside the house, I knew how to do that, but first I had to get in, and the Kilgore system was sitting there smugly and telling me I'd have an easier time getting into Fort Knox.
I've never had a look at Fort Knox, and can't see why I would want to-I'm not even certain there's any gold there, are you?