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Booneville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Booneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Booneville quadrangle. 168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

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Booneville within Owsley County

On record in Booneville

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

Booneville grew from 81 to 168 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
201081
2020168+87 (+107%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

421 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 421 fires within 5 miles of Booneville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,959 acres in total. None started naturally. 80 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 burning189
Missing data/not specified/undetermined128
Arson/incendiarism80
Recreation and ceremony21
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2002Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUILLEN ROAD
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley County

Storms near this place

60 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Booneville in 66 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 31 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 6 flood, 5 flash 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
May 1996Flash FloodBooneville$250,000no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBooneville$25,000Several trees blew onto a trailer, and caused nearly complete destruction.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindBooneville$11,000no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBooneville$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down across county. Widespread power outages reported.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBooneville$10,000Trees were blown down on a house.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBooneville$7,000Several trees were blown down around Booneville on Routes 30, 847, 708, and 2025.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindBooneville$5,000Trees were blown down onto Highway 30 by wind gusts estimated at 61 mph.
May 2003Flash FloodBooneville$5,000People on a small farm near Booneville experienced an extraordinary flash flood event. Rainfall was estimated to have fallen at a rate of at least 2 and a half inches in about 15 minutes. Lightning was intense, with one person describing the event "like the night Frozen Creek washed away". The land was in a steep, bowl-shaped hillside with pastures behind a farmhouse. A tiny stream ran through these pastures, which was overwhelmed rapidly from the torrential rainfall. A "wall of water" came through the narrow area at the foot of the pasture. By the time it reached the farmhouse, the water carried so much force that it jumped a concrete wall above a basement stairwell, and poured down the stairs, building pressure as it progressed. The steel basement door was bent and ripped off of its hinges. Water poured into the 70 foot long basement, carrying large logs, limbs, big clumps of sod, and an "unbelievable amount of mud". The residents lived there since 1962, and said that they had never seen anything like this.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindBooneville$3,000Roof blown off of house on Route 30.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBooneville$2,000Powerlines and several large limbs down.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindBooneville$2,000Three power pole blown down. Trees down throughout county.
March 2015FloodBooneville$1,000Highway 3347, or Shepherds Lane, was closed due to flooding.
April 2015Flash FloodBooneville$1,000Highway 3346 at Sugar Camp was impassable due to flash flooding.
December 2013FloodBooneville$1,000Kay Wood Road was closed at the low water bridge at Fish Trap.
December 2013FloodBooneville$1,000The Upper Wolf Creek low water bridge was flooded.
April 2013Flash FloodBooneville$1,000Six to 12 inches of water was flowing across Hwy 3346 at the Sugar Camp Church. Water was also flowing across Hwy 3347.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBooneville$1,000One tree was blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Pictures show large limbs blown and trees snapped and uprooted in the 2700 block of Fish Creek School Road.
January 2022Heavy RainBooneville-The Kentucky Mesonet station in Owsley County (BNVL) measured 4.29 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period ending at 7am on January 2, 2022.
March 2021FloodBooneville-KY-30 east is closed between mile marker 11 and 13 just outside of Booneville due to high water across the road.
March 2021FloodBooneville-KY-28 is closed between mile markers 0 and 1 due to high water across the road.
June 2021Flash FloodBooneville-Dispatch reported that a road east of Booneville was impassable due to water flowing over it.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBooneville-The Owsley County dispatch reported that strong thunderstorm wind gusts had knocked down a tree across Fish Creek School Road.
April 2020HailBooneville-Emergency Management reported nickel sized hail just east of Booneville.
May 2019HailBooneville-Dispatch relayed a report of penny sized hail south of Booneville.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Trees were twisted off and a roof was blown off of a small shed off of Brandenburg Road in Booneville.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Pine trees were blown down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Two trees were blown down on Hwy 3346.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBooneville-A tree was blown down and onto Hwy 1938.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBooneville-A tree was blown down in someone's yard on old Hwy 11 near Booneville.
August 2013Heavy RainBooneville-The twenty hour rainfall total near Booneville was 2.74 inches.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Three trees were blown down on a property off Hwy 30.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Widespread trees down across the county.
July 2011Heavy RainBooneville-The mesonet site near Booneville recorded 2.38 inches of rainfall between 715 pm and 815 pm.
September 2009Heavy RainBooneville-Two inches of rainfall occurred between 7 and 915 am in Booneville.
January 2006Thunderstorm WindBooneville-One cedar tree and several large tree limbs blown down between Levi and Vincent.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Two trees blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Five to six trees were down on Buck Creek Road. Trees were down on Highway 846 near Sturgeon. Trees were down across Highways 1071 and 30 near Green Hall.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Three trees were down on Highway 2024 at Bee Branch.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Several large trees were down across the junction of Kentucky Highway 30 and Highway 846.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Trees were blown down.
June 2000FloodBooneville-Water was reported flowing over the intersection of Highway 30 and Route 2024. Slow moving thunderstorms dumped between 1 and 3 inches of rain across the area.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Severe thunderstorm winds blew trees down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Trees were reported down on Highway 11 and Route 846.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Trees down.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Trees were reported down south of the city on KY HWY 28.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindBooneville-Severe thunderstorms brought trees down.
May 2008HailBooneville-no account filed
May 2008HailBooneville-no account filed
June 2008HailBooneville-no account filed
June 2008HailBooneville-no account filed
April 2006HailBooneville-no account filed
May 2006HailBooneville-no account filed
June 2006HailBooneville-no account filed
June 2006HailBooneville-no account filed
February 2003HailBooneville-no account filed
May 2003HailBooneville-no account filed
May 2003HailBooneville-no account filed
May 2003HailBooneville-no account filed
May 2003HailBooneville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owsley 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
Chestnut Gap1.5 miles14
Chestnut Neighborhood (historical)1.5 miles14
Fish Creek Neighborhood (historical)1.7 miles13
Sugar Camp Neighborhood (historical)1.9 miles14
Levi2.4 miles14
Stacey Neighborhood (historical)2.6 miles13
Eversole2.6 miles14
Stay2.6 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 BoonevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1917723The 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 510852. 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.