Hazard
Hazard is a city in Kentucky's Daniel Boone Country, county seat of Perry County and perhaps the quintessential Appalachian coal town. At the 2020 census the population was 5,263.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,260 residents
- Description: city and county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Hazard, Kentucky” and “Hazard, KY”
- Postal codes: 41701 and 41702
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mother Goose House.
Mother Goose House
Building
Photo: RobtKH, Public domain.
The Mother Goose House is a bed and breakfast and monument in Hazard, Kentucky. In 1930, Hazard resident George Stacy took inspiration to build a home in the shape of a goose after his wife had skinned the body of one he had brought home for Thanksgiving.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Diablock and Combs.
Diablock
Hamlet
Diablock is a census-designated place, unincorporated community and coal town in Perry County, Kentucky, United States. Its population was 453 as of the 2010 census. The town's post office has been closed in late 1916.
Combs
Hamlet
Combs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Perry County, Kentucky, United States. It was named for Abijah Benjamin Combs. At one time, the town was called Lennut; its post office, no longer existent, used this name.
Woodland Park
Hamlet
Woodland Park is an unincorporated community located in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
Hazard
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Perry, Daniel Boone Country, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.249° or 37° 14′ 56″ northLongitude
-83.1934° or 83° 11′ 36″ westPopulation
5,260Elevation
928 feet (283 metres)United Nations Location Code
US UJLOpen location code
869R6RX4+HJOpenStreetMap ID
node 153898507OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Hazard” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هازارد”
- Basque: “Hazard”
- Catalan: “Hazard”
- Cebuano: “Hazard”
- Chechen: “Газерд”
- Chinese: “Hazard”
- Chinese: “哈泽德”
- Czech: “Hazard”
- Dagbani: “Hazard”
- Danish: “Hazard”
- Dutch: “Hazard”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هازارد”
- French: “Hazard”
- German: “Hazard”
- Gilaki: “هازارد (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “هازارد”
- Greek: “Χάζαρντ”
- Haitian: “Hazard, Kentucky”
- Haitian: “Hazard”
- Hungarian: “Hazard”
- Ido: “Hazard, Kentucky”
- Ido: “Hazard”
- Irish: “Hazard”
- Italian: “Hazard”
- Japanese: “ハザード”
- Kazakh: “Xazard”
- Kazakh: “Хазард”
- Kazakh: “حازارد”
- Kirghiz: “Хазард”
- Korean: “해저드”
- Ladin: “Hazard”
- Malagasy: “Hazard, Kentucky”
- Malagasy: “Hazard”
- Mazanderani: “هزرد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hazard”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hazard”
- Persian: “هزرد، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “هزرد”
- Polish: “Hazard”
- Portuguese: “Hazard”
- Russian: “Хазард”
- Serbian: “Хазард”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hazard, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hazard”
- Slovak: “Hazard”
- Slovenian: “Hazard”
- South Azerbaijani: “هازارد، کنتاکی”
- Spanish: “Hazard (Kentucky)”
- Spanish: “Hazard”
- Swedish: “Hazard, Kentucky”
- Swedish: “Hazard”
- Tatar: “Газерд”
- Turkish: “Hazard, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Hazard”
- Ukrainian: “Газерд”
- Uzbek: “Hazard”
- Uzbek: “Ҳазард”
- Volapük: “Hazard”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hazard, Kentucky”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hazard”
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