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Allensville, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Guthrie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42204. It stands on Rum Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Allensville quadrangle. 175 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Allensville within Todd County

On record in Allensville

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Allensville fell from 189 to 175 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
2000189
2010157-32 (-17%)
2020175+18 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Allensville between 2000 and 2007, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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
10 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 February 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allensville in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2016Flash FloodAllensville$40,000Extensive flash flooding of roads occurred. Highway 181 was flooded south from Highway 1753 to Highway 848. A school bus was stuck in the water, but no children were on board. Highway 102 was flooded from Elkton to Highway 79. Business Route 68 in Elkton was flooded. Other flooded roads included Highway 104 from Elkton to Trenton, Highway 102 in Allensville, and Highway 848 near Anderson. Near Allensville, a man was stuck in his truck with water entering the truck. Fire and rescue personnel were dispatched to the scene. The county road department shut down several roads, mostly in and near the communities of Allensville, Herman, and Fairview. The Kentucky mesonet site five miles southwest of Elkton measured 2.81 inches on May 11th.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindAllensville$20,000The roof was blown off a barn along Highway 848 near Hadensville. Numerous trees were blown down near the community of Allensville. The combination of wind and hail destroyed fifteen acres of a tobacco field and damaged seven more acres. There were very small isolated spots of flattened corn.
January 2022Tornado (EF0)Allensville$3,000Many large tree branches were broken. A few trees were snapped. The tornado occurred in rural farm country, and no structures were damaged in the Todd County portion of the path. Peak winds in Todd County were estimated near 75 mph. The tornado exited into Logan County about a mile southeast of Allensville.
May 2018HailAllensville-Golf ball size hail was reported in rural country west of Allensville.

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Pennick (historical)4.2 miles8
Darnell4.7 miles6
Hadensville4.7 miles7
Hermon5.5 miles7
Anderson5.7 miles7
Daysville5.9 miles8
Zion6.0 miles7
Bradshaw6.2 miles7

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 AllensvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3317137The 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 485878. 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.