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Wayne County, Kentucky

52 topographic sheets and 2 fire insurance atlases across 1 place.

Research this county

From the record

7 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Kentucky within the United States
Wayne County within Kentucky

What the record shows

  • 1 place in this county was surveyed for fire insurance: Monticello, between 1926 and 1940.
  • 2 fire insurance atlases survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
  • 635 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 7 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 6 buildings and 1 district.
  • 3 of the 7 listings were added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 54 populated places in this county; 54 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

7

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph PropertyType ListedReference
Adkins-Hurt Millbuilding197777000662
Fairchild Housebuilding200808000215
Hotel Breedingbuilding198888001315
Mill Springs Millbuilding197373000858
Monticello Historic Commercial Districtdistrict198282001577
Wayne County High Schoolbuilding201313000567
West-Metcalfe Housebuilding197777000661

The county from the air

24 shown

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 549 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 24 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1951-04-18, scale 1:28400
1951-04-18, scale 1:28400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1951-04-18, scale 1:28400
1951-04-18, scale 1:28400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1951-04-18, scale 1:28400
1951-04-18, scale 1:28400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1951-04-18, scale 1:28400
1951-04-18, scale 1:28400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-13, scale 1:24000
1960-04-13, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-13, scale 1:24000
1960-04-13, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-13, scale 1:24000
1960-04-13, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-13, scale 1:24000
1960-04-13, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1965-02-15, scale 1:24000
1965-02-15, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1965-02-15, scale 1:24000
1965-02-15, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1965-02-15, scale 1:24000
1965-02-15, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1965-02-15, scale 1:24000
1965-02-15, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-05-04, scale 1:120000
1973-05-04, scale 1:120000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-10-18, scale 1:52000
1973-10-18, scale 1:52000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-10-18, scale 1:52000
1973-10-18, scale 1:52000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-10-18, scale 1:52000
1973-10-18, scale 1:52000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-01, scale 1:78000
1975-04-01, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-01, scale 1:78000
1975-04-01, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-01, scale 1:78000
1975-04-01, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-01, scale 1:78000
1975-04-01, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1976-03-17, scale 1:78000
1976-03-17, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1976-03-17, scale 1:78000
1976-03-17, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1976-03-17, scale 1:78000
1976-03-17, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1976-03-17, scale 1:78000
1976-03-17, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

3 stations, 1 gage

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

The 1950 census, district by district

24 districts

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

  • 116-1BMonticello town - That part Bounded by Michigan Ave.; Town limits; Town limits; S. Main, N. Main
  • 116-1AMonticello town - That part Bounded by Town limits; Town limits; Michigan Ave.; N. Main
  • 116-2AMonticello town - That part Bounded by Columbia Ave.; S. Main; Town limits; Town limits
  • 116-2BMonticello town - That part Bounded by Town limits; N. Main; Columbia Ave.; Town limits
  • 116-3Magisterial District 1 - That part outside Monticello town
  • 116-4Magisterial District 2: Magisterial District 2 - That part north of Beaver Creek
  • 116-5Magisterial District 2 - That part south of Beaver Creek and west of Parnell - Hidalgo Rd. and State Hwy. 90 to south district line via Susie
  • 116-6Magisterial District 2 - That part south of Beaver Creek and east of Parnell - Hidalgo and State Hwy. 90 to south district line via Susie
  • 116-7Magisterial District 3: Magisterial District 3 - That part east of Beaver Creek and Slickford - Mt. Pisgah Rd.
  • 116-8BMagisterial District 3 - That part west of Beaver Creek, north of Slickford - Mt. Pisgah Rd. via Sand Springs and Otter Creek, east of Cooper - Slickford Rd.
  • 116-8AMagisterial District 3 - That part southwest of Beaver Creek, northwest Cooper - Slickford Rd., north and northeast of Otter Creek
  • 116-9Magisterial District 3 - That part west of Otter Creek and Powersburg - Sandclift Rd. via Sunnybrook
  • 116-10Magisterial District 3 - That part south of Otter Creek and Slickford - Mt. Pisgah Rd. via Sand Springs and east of Powersburg - Sandclift Rd. via Sunnybrook
  • 116-11Magisterial District 4: Magisterial District 4 - That part north of State Hwy. 92 to Rockybranch - Parmleysville Rd., west of Rockybranch - Parmleysville Rd. to Parmleysville, and northeast of Parmleysville - Burfield Rd. west to district line, via Pine Hill School
  • 116-12Magisterial District 4 - That part south of State Hwy. 92 to Rockybranch - Parmleysville Rd., east of Rockybranch - Parnmleysville Rd. to Parmleysville, and southwest of Parmleysville - Burfield Rd. to west district line, via Pine Hill School
  • 116-13Magisterial District 5: Magisterial District 5 - That part north of Spann - Denny Rd. along Turkey Creek to east county line via Gregory
  • 116-14Magisterial District 5 - That part south of Spann - Denny Rd. along Turkey Creek to east county line via Gregory
  • 116-15Magisterial District 6: Magisterial District 6 - That part northwest of State Hwy. 90, northeast of Meadow Creek and Cumberland River
  • 116-16Magisterial District 6 - That part south of Cumberland River, and Meadow Creek and west and north of State Hwy. 90
  • 116-17Magisterial District 6 - That part east and south of State Hwy. 90, west of Frazier - Betsey Rd. and Meadow Creek
  • 116-18Magisterial District 6 - That part southeast of State Hwy. 90, Frazier - Betsey Rd., and Meadow Creek
  • 116-19Magisterial District 7: Magisterial District 7 - That part southeast of State Hwy. 90
  • 116-20Magisterial District 7 - That part northwest of State Hwy. 90, and north of Monticello - Normans Landing Rd. and Cumberland River, via Rogers Grove Church
  • 116-21Magisterial District 7 - That part southwest of Cumberland River and Monticello - Normans Landing Rd. and west of State Hwy. 90

Wildfire, 1995 to 2020

313 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 313 of them, burning about 12,922 acres. 3 started naturally and 71 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism71
Recreation and ceremony23
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. Four of them were set deliberately.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 November 2007Debris and open burning940 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAND POINT II
6 November 2008Debris and open burning725 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTURKEY ROCK
8 February 2001Debris and open burning575 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 October 2000Arson/incendiarism520 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 November 2001Arson/incendiarism500 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 October 2000Arson/incendiarism375 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 April 2001Arson/incendiarism350 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 October 2008Debris and open burning326 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMILLSAP

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1968 to 2026

60 of 312 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 312 reports for this county, causing 4 deaths, 62 injuries and about $29,573,350 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Thunderstorm Wind212
Hail55
Flash Flood22
Tornado9
Flood6
Heavy Rain4
Funnel Cloud3
Lightning1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1974Tornado (F3)not stated2 killed, 40 hurt, $2,500,000no account filed
April 1974Tornado (F4)not stated2 killed, 17 hurtno account filed
November 1989Thunderstorm Windnot stated2 hurtno account filed
April 2008Tornado (EF2)Wait1 hurt, $1,000,000An EF2 tornado with maximum winds near 130 mph entered Wayne County from Clinton County along Pleasant Ridge Road. The tornado maintained a continuous 7 mile track east northeast before lifting 1.5 miles southwest of Monticello near Furnace Mountain.
April 2002HailMonticello1 hurt, $500Windows were busted from large hail.
June 1987Thunderstorm Windnot stated1 hurtno account filed
April 1974Tornado (F3)not stated$25,000,000no account filed
June 2019LightningMonticello Wayne Arp$75,000Dispatch relayed a report of a lightning strike causing a tree to fall on a house and powerline in Monticello.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMonticello$55,000A tree was blown down onto a mobile home, also causing electrical lines to fall on the home, in the 500 block of South Main Street in Monticello.
May 2025HailSpann$50,000Multiple pictures on social media showed baseball sized hail in Monticello. One such photo and stone was near the intersection of State Highway 3285 and State Highway 776.
May 2010Tornado (EF2)Betsey$50,000An EF2 tornado touched down 1 mile south of Betsey in the Meadow Creek area. The tornado had a path length of 1/4 of a mile and a path width of 100 yards. The estimated wind speeds associated with the tornado were 110 to 120 mph. The tornado downed numerous trees. The twister also blew part of the roof off of a brick home, causing the corner of an outside wall to collapse.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMonticello$50,000Trees were blown down across roads throughout the county by winds estimated at 63 mph.
February 2021Tornado (EF1)Cabell$40,000The tornado narrowed as it crossed from Clinton County (Louisville, KY County Warning Area) into Wayne County, with some straight line wind damage noted. The winds|generally were from the west to southwest surrounding the tornado.|The straight line winds of 65 to 75 mph damaged 2 barns.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSunnybrook$35,000Numerous trees and large limbs were blown down in the southern portion of the county.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindMonticello$35,000Numerous trees down county wide.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMonticello$30,000Trees and power lines down in Monticello and throughout the county.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMonticello$30,000Numerous trees and large limbs were blown down, especially near Lake Cumberland.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGregory$30,000Numerous large trees and limbs were blown down in the eastern portion of the county.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMonticello Wayne Arp$25,000The county Emergency Manager and public reported numerous trees down in and north of Monticello along Kentucky Highway 90. These downed trees resulted in powerlines being knocked down, leading to over 4,000 power outages across the county. A few tin roofs were also blown off of buildings, further complicating road accessibility for cleanup crews. A State of Emergency was declared in order to speed up cleanup efforts.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindMonticello Wayne Arp$25,000Emergency Management reported wind damage to the roof of the local Walmart. A nearby power pole was also snapped, resulting in 3,000 customers losing power for a brief period.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWait$25,000Trees, power lines, and limbs were blown down in Zula.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindMonticello Wayne Arp$25,000A screen door was torn from a home along Hwy 92E in Monticello. A number of power outages were also reported in and around Monticello. Multiple trees had been blown down on Hwys 90E and 92E as well.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindMonticello$25,000Numerous trees down countywide.
May 2025HailMonticello$20,000Pictures on social media show structural damage along Cherry Street in Monticello from the large hail that fell. Multiple broken windsow and tattered vinyl siding is visible, alongside piles of large, melting hail stones.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMonticello Wayne Arp$20,000A tree was reported downed onto a car in Monticello. Multiple other reports of trees downed across Monticello were also made on X.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMonticello Wayne Arp$20,000There were trees down countywide. Multiple roads were blocked due to storm damage. Some of the roads that were blocked include Kentucky 1275, 833, 92, 2393, 167, 776, 200.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindMt Pisgah$20,000A line of severe thunderstorms produced straight-line wind which produced a 2 mile long path of damaged or destroyed trees running along Kentucky Highway 167 near Millsap Hill and Big Pilot Knob. The damage consisted of numerous large trees, including fruit trees, and were uprooted and snapped in a divergent pattern. Two homes and one car were damaged by falling trees.
March 1997Flash FloodMonticello$20,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindFrazer$15,000Wayne county dispatch reported that a vehicle hit a tree blown down into the road near the intersection of KY-1568 and Bradley Road, in the community of Frazer.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMonticello Wayne Arp$15,000The Wayne County dispatch reported that powerful thunderstorm winds had blown the roof off of a house along Elm Street in Monticello.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindSunnybrook$15,000Multiple trees were blown down in Sunnybrook.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMonticello$15,000Trees and limbs were blown down in Monticello.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindSteubenville$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Steubenville and Conley Bottom.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMonticello$15,000A barn was blown onto Route 200 in Monticello. Trees were down across the county.
April 1998Tornado (F2)Mt Pisgah$15,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCedarcrest$10,000Numerous 911 calls reporting a roof collapse at the Conley Bottom Resort main pier on Lake Cumberland, leaving people trapped on their boats.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindMonticello Wayne Arp$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down countywide. The time was estimated off of radar.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindDelta$10,000Trees and power lines were down and blocking Brammer Hill Rd in the Delta community.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindFrisby$10,000A barn was blown into KY 200 near Hwy 167 southwest of Monticello.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMonticello$10,000Trees and power lines were down in the Monticello area and also northern Wayne County.
March 2002Flash FloodMonticello$10,000Heavy rains during March 17th caused repeated episodes of flash flooding. Several roads were flooded.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSteubenville$10,000Strong winds damaged roof of Methodist Church in Steubenville on KY 3106.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindParnell$10,000Trailer blown over.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindMill Spgs$10,000Part of the roof was blown off of a bi-level house. A large tree and a couple of smaller ones were also blown down.
January 1997Thunderstorm WindMonticello$10,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMonticello$8,000Trees were blown down onto a trailer home on Evelyn Ave in Monticello.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMonticello$7,000Several trees were blown down in and near Monticello, blocking roads.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMonticello$6,500Wayne County dispatch reported that very strong thunderstorm wind gusts had caused a tree to fall onto a mobile home and vehicle along Tennessee Street just southeast of Monticello.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindStop$5,000A citizen reported a carport toppled into electrical lines just southeast of Cabell.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMonticello$5,000A citizen reported a couple of large tree limbs being snapped, and subsequently falling onto a nearby storage building, causing it to collapse.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindMonticello Wayne Arp$5,000Two roofs were taken off storage buildings and a post was pulled out of cement.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindMurl$5,000There were several trees blown down along highway 1546 near the Murl community.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindMt Pisgah$5,000Trees were blown down and across Hwy 167 just north of Mount Pisgah.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindMonticello$5,000Multiple trees were blown down outside the Wayne County Hospital.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMonticello$5,000Trees were blown down in the city of Monticello at the intersection of College and Alexander Streets.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMonticello$5,000Numerous trees down over south portion of the county. Power out in Monticello for a couple of hours.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMonticello$5,000Trees down across an area around 200 yards wide along Highway 92 East near Monticello. One tree fell on a house and a roof was blown off a garage.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindParnell$5,000Power lines were down.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindWindy$5,000no account filed
April 1998Flash FloodCountywide$5,000no account filed

Mines and quarries

3 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 3 workings inside this county. 1 still produces and 2 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Clay1
Stone, Crushed/Broken1
Sand and Gravel, Construction1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bald Rock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Coffey Mountain ShaleClayProspect
Monticello QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every populated place in the county

54

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 1 place that was also surveyed for fire insurance comes first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.

The vanished settlements of Wayne County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Recorded here

Monticello, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets and 2 fire insurance atlases, 1926 to 1940

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.