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Beech Grove, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Calhoun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42327. It lies near Wrightsburg Hill. The Survey maps it on the Beech Grove quadrangle. 282 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Beech Grove within McLean County

Population over time

2 figures

Beech Grove grew from 243 to 282 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
2010243
2020282+39 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Beech Grove between 2003 and 2013, burning about 104 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/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 November 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPASCAL KING RD.
11 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 October 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beech Grove: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Roland Landing Sandstone QuarrySilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beech Grove in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 6 flood, 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
October 2007Tornado (EF2)Beech Grove$400,000Twelve to fifteen farm buildings were damaged. Six to eight barns were destroyed. One home received heavy damage. Three to four more houses received minor damage. A garage and several vehicles were destroyed. A pontoon boat loaded on a trailer was moved 15 to 20 feet. Numerous trees and power lines were down. The funnel was photographed by a resident of the Beech Grove area. Peak winds were estimated at 120 mph. The average path width was 300 yards. The tornado continued into Daviess County.
April 2008Flash FloodBeech Grove$50,000Five to six inches of water was over Highways 136, 56, and 140. Numerous areas countywide experienced flash flooding. A considerable amount of debris was deposited on roads. Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 6 A.M. April 4 was 6.7 inches.
March 2008FloodBeech Grove$49,000Several roads were under water.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindBeech Grove$40,000Widespread tree damage was reported throughout the community.
May 2011FloodBeech Grove$30,000no account filed
August 2006LightningBeech Grove$10,000A lightning strike damaged the electrical system of chicken houses.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBeech Grove$7,000There was minor damage to a grocery store in Beech Grove. A wind gust to 61 mph was measured at a Kentucky mesonet site several miles to the southeast.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindBeech Grove$5,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBeech Grove$3,000Trained spotters reported tree limbs were blown down by gusts near 65 mph.
February 2025FloodBeech Grove-The flash flooding on the evening of the 15th transitioned to areal flooding early on the 16th. The additional flood waters served to aggravate the ongoing flooding on the Green River through McLean County.
April 2016Funnel CloudBeech Grove-Law enforcement received a few phone calls from the public reporting a funnel cloud in the community.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBeech Grove-A wind gust to 60 mph was estimated by the public.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindBeech Grove-The Kentucky mesonet site in Mclean County measured a peak wind gust to 61 mph.
December 2011FloodBeech Grove-At least 7 roads were closed, mostly in the Livermore area.
April 2008FloodBeech Grove-Kentucky 85 was closed at the 6 mile marker. Six other state highways were covered by water, including U.S. Highway 431 at the 9 mile marker.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindBeech Grove-Trees were blown down across a roadway.
November 2002HailBeech Grove-A severe thunderstorm moved northeast from Webster County, producing golf-ball size hail as it moved over the northwest corner of Mclean County.
July 2013HailBeech Grove-no account filed
April 2011FloodBeech Grove-no account filed
March 2007HailBeech Grove-no account filed
April 2006HailBeech Grove-no account filed
May 2006HailBeech Grove-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBeech Grove-no account filed
August 2003HailBeech Grove-no account filed
April 2003HailBeech Grove-no account filed
March 1997HailBeech Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Wrightsburg1.7 miles14
Lemon2.6 miles14
Congleton2.9 miles14
Comer2.9 miles13
Elba3.1 miles13
Mount Vernon3.3 miles13
Wyman3.6 miles13
Glovers (historical)3.6 miles13

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 Beech GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5724478The 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 486710. 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.

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.