Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Fort Knox, KY

Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in north-central Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown.

The roughly 109,000-acre reservation covers parts of Bullitt, Hardin, and Meade counties, although the dataset record lists Hardin County.

The post began in 1918 as Camp Knox, a World War I field artillery training center, and became a permanent garrison renamed Fort Knox in January 1932.

Fort Knox is named for Henry Knox, the Continental Army's chief of artillery during the Revolutionary War and the first United States Secretary of War.

Adjacent to the post stands the United States Bullion Depository, the fortified Treasury vault built in 1936 that stores over half of the nation's official gold reserves under the guard of the United States Mint Police.

For safekeeping after Pearl Harbor, the original Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address were stored at the Bullion Depository from 1941 until 1944.

For 60 years Fort Knox was home to the U.S. Army Armor Center and School, training tank crews up through the M1 Abrams era, until the Armor School moved to Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2011.

The General George Patton Museum of Leadership on post traces the history of the Army's cavalry and armored forces and of General George S. Patton's career.

Fort Knox today hosts the Army Human Resources Command, whose Human Resources Center of Excellence, opened in 2010, is the largest office building in Kentucky and employs nearly 4,300 soldiers and civilians.

The U.S. Army Cadet Command relocated to Fort Knox in 2014, and all summer training for ROTC cadets now takes place there.