Beechmont, Kentucky
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Drakesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42323. The Survey maps it on the Drakesboro quadrangle. 776 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 463 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBeechmont grew from 689 to 776 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 689 | |
| 2020 | 776 | +87 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:48000
- 1913 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
55 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Beechmont between 1998 and 2018, burning about 957 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 300 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DOG LADY |
| 31 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BEECH CREEK |
| 30 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 21 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 145 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GOOSE LAKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beechmont in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Beechmont | $10,000 | A thunderstorm core moving east-northeastward across Muhlenberg County produced hail measured to quarter size in Beechmont and golf ball size hail in Browder, submitted via mPING. Emergency management reported hail damage to vehicles occurred in Beechmont. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beechmont | - | A couple of trees were down, including one that fell across power lines. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Beechmont | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belton | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Browder | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Beech Creek | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Forest Grove (historical) | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Mud River Union (historical) | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Leighs (historical) | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Union Ridge | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Drakesboro | 3.1 miles | 15 |
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 Beechmont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5724492 | The 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 486750. 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.








