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Adairville, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Adairville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42202. It stands on Smith Branch. The Survey maps it on the Adairville quadrangle. 837 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Adairville within Logan County

On record in Adairville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Adairville fell from 920 to 837 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000920
2010852-68 (-7%)
2020837-15 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Adairville in 1999, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

36 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adairville in 36 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 24 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 tornado, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1996Tornado (F0)Adairville$500,000no account filed
November 2005Tornado (F1)Adairville$250,000A supercell thunderstorm developed over northern Tennessee and moved into south central Kentucky during the early evening hours of November 15. It produced multiple, short-lived tornado touchdowns along its path, which stretched for nearly 25 miles across three counties. The first touchdown in Logan County was just north of Adairville in southern Logan County. Many homes, trailers, barns and outbuildings were damaged along the intermittent path of the tornado. The tornado finally lifted near the Logan/Simpson County line near State Highway 100.
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Adairville$100,000A NWS Nashville Storm Survey concluded that an EF-1 tornado down southeast of Adairville, traveled 1.5 miles, and then lifted approximately 2.5 miles east of Adairville. Along its path, the tornado did minor roof damage to a house near Martin Rd. A home and an outbuilding had minor damage near Barnes Rd, along with several downed trees. The most significant damage happened just before the tornado lifted near Prices Mill Road, where a large barn lost a significant portion of its roof structure. Maximum estimated winds were 90-95 mph, and the max width was 50 to 75 yards.
June 2017LightningAdairville$100,000A house was struck by lightning and caught on fire. The house burned to the ground.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindAdairville$75,000A barn was blown over.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindAdairville$70,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off buildings. Barns were destroyed. Trees were uprooted.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindAdairville$50,000The top floor of a two story business building on Main Street was blown 75 to 100 yards from the base of the building. The damaged section was of wood frame and sheet metal construction. The intact lower floor was brick construction.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Adairville$25,000A tornado touched down about 2 miles east of Adairville and moved northeast for about 2 miles. The tornado blew the roofs off some houses, damaged some garages, and snapped some trees about 20 feet off the ground. There was evidence of a tornado path in a wheat field.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindAdairville$10,000A spotter reported damage to several signs and porches in Adairville.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindAdairville$10,000Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds. There was unspecified roof damage.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindAdairville$5,000The covering was blown off the porch of a mobile home.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindAdairville-A tree was down on North Walnut Street.
May 2024Flash FloodAdairville-Rising waters from the Red River resulted in a water rescue of a man on top of his house on Riverview Drive near Adairville.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAdairville-A large tree was blown onto a house in Adairville.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAdairville-Several trees were down in Adairville.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAdairville-There was a tree down on East Gallatin Street.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAdairville-There was a tree down on Tamara Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAdairville-There was a tree down on Trimble Road.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindAdairville-A few trees were reported down.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindAdairville-There was a report of a tree down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindAdairville-A tree was reported down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAdairville-Two trees were down in Adairville.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindAdairville-The public reported approximately 30 large trees down due to severe thunderstorm winds. Two buildings sustained damage as well.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindAdairville-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindAdairville-Trees were downed.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAdairville-Trees were downed.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAdairville-A spotter estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindAdairville-Trees were downed.
March 2009HailAdairville-no account filed
March 2006HailAdairville-no account filed
September 2006HailAdairville-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindAdairville-no account filed
April 2003HailAdairville-no account filed
March 2002HailAdairville-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAdairville-no account filed
April 2000HailAdairville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mortimer Station2.5 miles9
Smithgrove (historical)3.1 miles9
Schley3.8 miles9
Oakland (historical)3.9 miles9
Hilltop3.9 miles9
Pleasant Grove (historical)4.2 miles9
Schochoh5.0 miles9
Dot5.4 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AdairvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q347005The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 485749. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

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.