Fort Knox
Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Locality with 10,100 residents
- Description: United States Army post in Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Camp Henry Knox”, “Camp Henry Knox Army Reservation”, “Camp Knox”, “Camp Knox Military Reservation”, and “Fort Knox CDP”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Godman Army Airfield and Barr Memorial Library.
Godman Army Airfield
Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Godman Army Airfield is a military airport located on the Fort Knox United States Army post in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States. It has four runways and is used entirely by the United States Army Aviation Branch.
Barr Memorial Library
Library
Barr Memorial Library, named after Major General David Goodwin Barr, is a part of the Community Recreation Division of Fort Knox’s Directorate of Family, Moral, Welfare and Recreation.
United States Bullion Depository
Warehouse
Photo: Cliff, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Fort Knox
- Category: military base
- Location: Hardin, Kentucky Derby Region, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Fort Knox” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Fort Knox”
- Arabic: “فورت كنوكس”
- Arabic: “فورت نوكس”
- Armenian: “Ֆորտ Նոքս”
- Basque: “Fort Knox”
- Belarusian: “Форт-Нокс”
- Bulgarian: “Форт Нокс”
- Catalan: “Fort Knox”
- Cebuano: “Fort Knox”
- Chinese: “诺克斯堡”
- Chinese: “諾克斯堡”
- Czech: “Fort Knox”
- Danish: “Fort Knox”
- Dutch: “Fort Knox”
- Esperanto: “Fort Knox”
- Finnish: “Fort Knox”
- French: “Fort Knox”
- German: “Fort Duffield”
- German: “Fort Knox”
- German: “Fort-Knox”
- Hebrew: “פורט נוקס”
- Hungarian: “Fort Knox”
- Indonesian: “Fort Knox”
- Italian: “Fort Knox”
- Japanese: “フォート・ノックス”
- Japanese: “フォート・ノックス基地”
- Japanese: “フォート・ノックス陸軍基地”
- Japanese: “フォートノックス”
- Korean: “포트 녹스”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Camp Knox”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Knox”
- Norwegian: “Fort Knox”
- Persian: “فورت ناکس”
- Polish: “Fort Knox”
- Portuguese: “Fort Knox”
- Russian: “Форт Нокс”
- Russian: “Форт-Нокс”
- Serbian: “Форт Нокс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Knox, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Knox”
- Slovenian: “Camp Knox”
- Slovenian: “Fort Knox”
- Spanish: “Fort Knox”
- Spanish: “Fuerte de Knox”
- Swedish: “Fort Knox”
- Tamil: “நாக்ஸ் கோட்டை”
- Ukrainian: “Форт-Нокс”
- Urdu: “فورٹ ناکس”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fort Knox”
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