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.
Population over time
3 figuresBlaine 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 245 | |
| 2010 | 47 | -198 (-81%) |
| 2020 | 66 | +19 (+40%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Blaine quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
65 since 1997Regional 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 burning | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SCHOOL HOUSE BRANCH |
| 9 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PATRICK BR |
| 9 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ROCKHOUSE TRACE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2012 | Hail | Blaine | $150,000 | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Blaine | $100,000 | no account filed |
| March 2015 | Flood | Blaine | $50,000 | Small 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | $20,000 | Trees were blown down in scattered locations around Blaine. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | $5,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | $2,000 | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | $2,000 | no account filed |
| February 2025 | Flood | Blaine | $1,500 | Blaine 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 2025 | Flood | Blaine | $250 | Blaine 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | - | Severel trees were blown down in the Blaine and Lowmansville area. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Blaine | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Blaine | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Blaine | - | no account filed |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Hail | Blaine | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Blaine | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tarkiln (historical) | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Hannah | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Cordell | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Cherokee | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Elm Grove (historical) | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Prosperity (historical) | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Martha | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Davisville | 4.0 miles | 17 |
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 Blaine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2482253 | 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 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.





