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Barlow, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Barlow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42024. It stands on Little Shawnee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barlow quadrangle. 653 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Barlow within Ballard County

On record in Barlow

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

2 figures

Barlow fell from 675 to 653 between 2010 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
2010675
2020653-22 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 24 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Barlow between 1999 and 2012, burning about 76 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/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 February 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryJIM ARLIN
29 November 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 October 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ballard County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barlow in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Barlow$100,000Part of a metal wall was damaged at a maintenance building. The roof was blown off a storage building at the city hall. Three power poles were snapped, which cut power to the city water plant. There was roof damage to a barn. A large tree fell on a home and two mobile homes. A carport landed up in a tree. There was minor roof damage on two homes and a carport. Several large trees were uprooted and snapped. Peak winds were estimated near 100 mph. The average path width was 65 yards.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindBarlow$40,000Security lights were ripped off poles. Trailers were overturned. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. A few houses were struck by falling trees. Many roads were blocked by debris. The damage was mostly from Barlow to the south side of LaCenter, including the Hinkleville area.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBarlow$30,000Several roads and intersections were blocked by downed trees and power lines. Damage was reported at several locations around the county, including Barlow. Downed power lines started small fires.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBarlow$30,000Trees were down at several locations in the county. In the city of Barlow, there were several trees down, causing minor damage to some buildings. A vehicle was damaged when a tree fell on it.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBarlow$10,000Several small trees were across roads. Power lines were blown down. The damage was mostly on or near Highway 1105 between Barlow and Oscar.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindBarlow$10,000A metal roof was blown off a home onto an automobile.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBarlow$9,000Large tree limbs were down from Barlow to LaCenter and Kevil. A tree was down on a house in LaCenter. A pole was snapped. Wires were down.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindBarlow$4,000Trees were down in the Slater Road area.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBarlow$3,000Tree limbs were blown down, causing power outages.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindBarlow$3,000Power lines were down.
February 2000Thunderstorm WindBarlow$2,000A couple of trees were down on U.S. Highway 60 and on Highway 802.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindBarlow$1,000A tree fell across Highway 1368.
June 2019HailBarlow-Very large hail struck parts of central Ballard County. At Barlow, a photo was taken of a hailstone measuring 3.4 inches in diameter. The hailstone was spiked in appearance. A couple miles south-southeast of La Center, a photo of quarter-size hail was posted on social media.
May 2018FloodBarlow-A lightly-travelled rural road northeast of Barlow was flooded.
July 2016Flash FloodBarlow-There were several reports of flooded roadways throughout the county.
June 2011Heavy RainBarlow-Up to four inches of water covered low-lying areas in the Barlow city limits. Highway 1367 was flooded near the McCracken County line. A trained spotter in Ingleside measured 5.25 inches in about five hours. In LaCenter, a spotter measured 4.5 inches.
April 2008Flash FloodBarlow-Water was over eight highways, including U.S. Highway 60 at milepost 2 and U.S. Highway 62 at milepost 1.
June 2007Flash FloodBarlow-Widespread flooding of streets and secondary roads occurred countywide.
April 2006HailBarlow-Quarter size hail occurred in Barlow and Kevil.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBarlow-Trees were blown down.
April 2005HailBarlow-Copious amounts of hail covered the ground.
April 2011HailBarlow-no account filed
June 2009HailBarlow-no account filed
January 1997HailBarlow-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindBarlow-no account filed
March 1996HailBarlow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ballard 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
Slater3.9 miles16
La Center4.2 miles16
Oscar5.9 miles25
Hinkleville6.0 miles16
Wickliffe6.4 miles15
East Cairo (historical)6.5 miles27
New York6.6 miles10
Turner Landing8.2 miles25

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 BarlowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2463012The 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 486360. 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.