THE SHORT ANSWER
Fort Knox holds 147.3 million fine troy ounces—not the entire U.S. reserve
The latest Bureau of the Fiscal Service row reports 147,341,858.382 fine troy ounces at Fort Knox. That is about 56.3% of the U.S. government's 261,498,926.241-ounce total. Fort Knox is the largest named location, but Denver, West Point, working stock and Federal Reserve-held gold must remain in the full reconciliation.
Official fine-gold quantity.
Derived from the same report date.
Statutory, not market price.
U.S. Mint facility history.
WHERE FORT KNOX FITS
Compare the location with the complete official schedule
Use the interactive U.S. Treasury gold reserve explorer to inspect all monthly official reports and the complete eight-row location table.
HISTORY
The facility opened before the first shipment arrived
Congress authorized land for a precious-metals depository.
The U.S. Mint records completion in December.
Gold arrived from the Philadelphia Mint and New York Assay Office.
The Mint identifies 649.6 million ounces as the highest Fort Knox holding.
The current amount should not be backfilled into historical dates. Facilities, accounts and national holdings changed over time. A historical comparison requires same-definition source tables, not a modern total attached to an old event.
WHAT IS STORED
Fine-gold quantity matters more than a guessed bar count
The Mint says Fort Knox gold is held in standard bars of almost pure gold and coin bars produced from melted coins, and describes a standard bar as approximately 400 troy ounces. “Approximately” matters: dividing the total by 400 creates only a rough equivalent, not an official inventory of bar serial numbers, weights or purity. The authoritative monthly measure is fine troy ounces.
Bars can differ in gross weight and fineness. Fine troy ounces already normalize gold content; an exact bar count requires a bar-level inventory source.
AUDIT AND CUSTODY
Separate a reported balance from the procedures used to support it
Fiscal Service describes deep storage as government bullion secured by the Mint in sealed vaults examined under the Treasury audit process. The U.S. Mint financial statements and Inspector General audit materials provide period-specific accounting evidence. Those records support an official quantity and custody schedule, but they should not be exaggerated into a public live camera, a new monthly assay, or an unrestricted bar list.
- Use the status report for the month-end Fort Knox quantity and statutory book value.
- Use the Mint audit for deep-storage accounting, market-value disclosure and audit opinion for the stated fiscal years.
- Use the U.S. Mint facility page for operational history and visitor policy.
- Do not merge a 1974 congressional inspection with the scope of a current financial audit.
- Do not treat lack of public access as evidence for or against an unverified claim.
VALUATION
Official book value is intentionally different from market value
Multiplying the Fort Knox fine ounces by the statutory $42.2222 rate gives the published book value of about $6.221 billion. A market-value estimate uses a same-time gold price and will be much larger when market gold trades above the statutory rate. Neither figure says the gold is for sale.
Read U.S. gold reserve book value versus market value before quoting a dollar total.
PRIMARY SOURCES
Official quantity, facility history and audit evidence
- Fiscal Data U.S. Government Gold Reserve dataset for the latest and historical Fort Knox rows.
- Bureau of the Fiscal Service Gold Report for full schedule scope and definitions.
- United States Mint Fort Knox Bullion Depository for facility history, quantity and operational facts.
- Treasury OIG-26-021 for the FY2025 Mint custodial deep-storage and working-stock audit context.
FAQ
Fort Knox gold reserve questions
How much gold is stored at Fort Knox?
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service reports 147,341,858.382 fine troy ounces at Fort Knox as of 2026-06-30. The U.S. Mint publishes the same quantity on its Fort Knox facility page.
Is all U.S. government gold at Fort Knox?
No. Fort Knox represents about 56.3% of the latest reported total. Denver, West Point, Mint working stock and Federal Reserve Bank-held rows account for the rest.
Does Fort Knox make coins?
No. The U.S. Mint describes Fort Knox as a bullion depository, not a production facility. Coin production and working stock are separate operational categories.
How is Fort Knox gold valued?
The official status report uses the statutory $42.2222 per fine troy ounce rate for book value. Market value requires a separate same-date market price and is not the amount carried in the monthly report.
Is every Fort Knox bar audited every year?
Do not infer that from the monthly balance. Treasury and Mint audit reports describe their own scope, procedures and periods. A financial audit or sealed-vault examination should not be rewritten as a claim that every bar received a fresh independent assay.
Can the public tour Fort Knox?
The U.S. Mint states that visitors are not permitted at the bullion depository. Public tours are offered at other Mint facilities, not at Fort Knox.