Hazard

Hazard is a city in 's , county seat of Perry County and perhaps the quintessential Appalachian coal town. At the 2020 census the population was 5,263.
Photo: RobtKH, Public domain.
  • Type: Town with 5,260 residents
  • Description: city and county seat of Perry County, Kentucky, United States
  • Also known as: “Hazard (Kentucky)”, “Hazard, Kentucky”, “Hazard, KY”, and “Ҳазард”
  • Postal codes: 41701 and 41702

Places of Interest

Highlights: Mother Goose House.

Building
Photo: RobtKH, Public domain.
The is a bed and breakfast and monument in Hazard, Kentucky.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Diablock and Combs.

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Hazard

Latitude
37.249° or 37° 14′ 56″ north
Longitude
-83.1934° or 83° 11′ 36″ west
Population
5,260
Elevation
928 feet (283 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US UJL
Open location code
869R6RX4+HJ
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Open­Street­Map feature
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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: “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”
  • Norwegian: “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”
  • Swedish: “Hazard, Kentucky”
  • Swedish: “Hazard”
  • Tatar: “Газерд”
  • Turkish: “Hazard, Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “Hazard”
  • Ukrainian: “Газерд”
  • Urdu: “ہیزرڈ، کینٹکی”
  • Uzbek: “Hazard”
  • Volapük: “Hazard”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hazard, Kentucky”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hazard”

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