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Blandville, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wickliffe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42087. The Survey maps it on the Blandville quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 463 feet above sea level.

Blandville within Ballard County

On record in Blandville

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

Blandville fell from 90 to 73 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
201090
202073-17 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Blandville between 1998 and 2015, burning about 133 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2010Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROSS CROSSING
7 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ballard 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 Blandville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Stovall Creek ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Ballard County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blandville in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2013Tornado (EF0)Blandville$15,000Peak winds were estimated near 80 mph. Large sections of trees were snapped. A mobile home was moved off its foundation.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBlandville$10,000Just southwest of Blandville, two trees were snapped. A large tree fell through a home near Slater.
March 1997Flash FloodBlandville$10,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBlandville$5,000Large tree limbs were down, and a large tree was uprooted.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBlandville$4,000A couple of trees were blown down in the county. One of the trees was 18 inches in diameter ten miles south of La Center.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBlandville$4,000Large trees were down, closing Route 286.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindBlandville$2,000A tree fell on a house between Wickliffe and Blandville.
January 2007Flash FloodBlandville-Flooding was observed along Bethlehem Church Road.
July 2023HailBlandville-no account filed
March 2018HailBlandville-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
New York3.2 miles10
Ross Crossing4.1 miles10
Gage5.1 miles10
Slater5.2 miles16
Wickliffe6.8 miles15
Hinkleville7.1 miles16
Lovelaceville7.3 miles7
Ceredo8.5 miles16

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 BlandvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q596075The 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 487455. 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.