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Blaine, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Blaine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41124. It stands on Burton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blaine quadrangle. 66 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Blaine within Lawrence County

Population over time

3 figures

Blaine fell from 245 to 66 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
2000245
201047-198 (-81%)
202066+19 (+40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

65 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Blaine between 1997 and 2019, burning about 835 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1

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 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2014Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySCHOOL HOUSE BRANCH
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryPATRICK BR
9 April 2009Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2009Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2001Arson/incendiarism50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROCKHOUSE TRACE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blaine in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood. 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
March 2012HailBlaine$150,000no account filed
March 2012HailBlaine$100,000no account filed
March 2015FloodBlaine$50,000Small streams flooded and blocked roads. One example was Cains Creek near Blaine. Another flooded stream was Lick Creek. The Tug Fork River kept some roads near the West Virginia border flooded into the 6th.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBlaine$20,000Trees were blown down in scattered locations around Blaine.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBlaine$5,000Trees were blown down.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindBlaine$3,000Trees and power lines were knocked down.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindBlaine$2,000Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindBlaine$2,000no account filed
February 2025FloodBlaine$1,500Blaine Creek near Blaine exceeded a bankfull level of 17 feet on the morning of February 6th. The creek reached a crest of 20.3 feet that afternoon and then returned below bankfull around midnight. While the creek was out of its banks, portions of the Blaine Elementary School, low sections of Route 32, Blaine Community Park, and agricultural fields adjacent to the creek were all flooded.
January 2025FloodBlaine$250Blaine Creek near Blaine exceeded a bankfull level of 17 feet on the morning of January 31st. The creek crested around 17.6 feet and then receded below bankfull again that night. Impacts while the creek was out of its banks included flooding along low sections of Route 32, the Blaine Community Park, and fields adjacent to the creek.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBlaine-Severel trees were blown down in the Blaine and Lowmansville area.
October 2014HailBlaine-no account filed
June 2013HailBlaine-no account filed
June 2010HailBlaine-no account filed
February 2008Thunderstorm WindBlaine-no account filed
November 2002HailBlaine-no account filed
August 1997HailBlaine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Tarkiln (historical)2.0 miles17
Hannah2.1 miles15
Cordell3.1 miles15
Cherokee3.5 miles15
Elm Grove (historical)3.7 miles15
Prosperity (historical)3.8 miles15
Martha3.9 miles14
Davisville4.0 miles17

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 BlaineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2482253The 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 487427. 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.