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Bremen, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Bremen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42325. The Survey maps it on the Central City West quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Bremen within Muhlenberg County

Population over time

3 figures

Bremen fell from 365 to 172 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
2000365
2010197-168 (-46%)
2020172-25 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Bremen between 1997 and 2019, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFURLOUGHWEEN
23 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHEN HOUSE
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2007Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

35 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bremen in 35 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 5 funnel cloud, 2 heavy rain. 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBremen$150,000A microburst containing estimated winds up to 85 mph struck near Bremen. The microburst was up to 1200 yards wide and four miles long. At least seven homes sustained minor damage, including loss of shingles or siding. At least seven barns or sheds lost siding or metal roofing panels. Dozens of trees were uprooted or lost limbs. A couple homes were damaged by fallen trees. Several power poles and lines were downed. The damage was mainly along and north of Highway 70.
November 2017Tornado (EF1)Bremen$100,000One tobacco barn was levelled, and two others sustained major damage. Part of the tobacco barn was blown several hundred yards to the southeast and then arcing eastward. Plank projectiles from the tobacco barn were embedded in the siding of a shed. At least five other barns sustained minor roof or siding damage. A pickup truck attached to a loaded trailer was shifted about a foot. A half dozen homes lost some shingles. Dozens of trees were uprooted or lost large limbs. The tornado began just west of Highway 181 and ended just east of Highway 2584. The damage was most extensive in the area of Highway 181. Peak winds were estimated near 90 mph.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindBremen$50,000A roof was completely ripped off a house and garage along Highway 181.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBremen$50,000Numerous trees were blown down across the county. One of the hardest hit areas was Greenville, where about two dozen trees were down, including one on a house and one on a trailer. A few buildings were damaged in the Graham area. There were many downed power lines.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindBremen$30,000A barn was totally destroyed along Fairview Road.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindBremen$30,000Thunderstorm winds blew part of a roof off a home.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBremen$25,000Extensive tree damage was reported along Shavers Drive near Bremen. Some tree limbs were driven into the roofs of outbuildings. Tree damage also occurred nearby along Highway 181 and on Park Street in Bremen.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBremen$25,000Trees and power lines were blown down in and near Bremen.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBremen$10,000About a dozen trees were blown down in the Bremen area. One of the trees fell on a house. A few trees fell on power lines.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBremen$7,000Trees were down just south of South Carrollton. There were reports of widespread tree damage across the northern half of the county, including Graham and Bremen.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindBremen$6,000A few trees were blown down in Bremen, including one that landed on a power line.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBremen$6,000Numerous trees and power lines were down in Central City and Bremen.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBremen$5,000A tree fell on a trailer in Bremen. Across much of the remainder of the county, especially from Central City north, small tree limbs were down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBremen$5,000At least a couple of small to medium size trees were blown down, including one that was across a road. A metal roof was blown off a garage east of Bremen.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBremen$2,000The public reported tree damage to a garage.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBremen-Small tree limbs were broken.
April 2016HailBremen-Golf ball size hail fell from Bremen eastward to the Green River, including areas along U.S. Highway 431 north of Central City. This hail fell from the same storm that produced the funnel cloud along the Western Kentucky Parkway northwest through north of Greenville.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindBremen-A few smaller trees were blown down.
March 2012Funnel CloudBremen-A funnel cloud was reported along State Highway 181 North.
May 2012Heavy RainBremen-Water was over a state road. The state highway department was called to assess the situation.
June 2009Heavy RainBremen-A spotter measured 1.14 inches of rain in less than an hour.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindBremen-Four trees about a foot in diameter were blown down across roadways.
June 1998Funnel CloudBremen-A funnel cloud moved southeast from Bremen to Central City.
April 2020HailBremen-no account filed
June 2018Funnel CloudBremen-no account filed
October 2014HailBremen-no account filed
February 2012HailBremen-no account filed
February 2012HailBremen-no account filed
April 2011HailBremen-no account filed
April 2011Funnel CloudBremen-no account filed
April 2007HailBremen-no account filed
May 2004Funnel CloudBremen-no account filed
July 2003HailBremen-no account filed
May 2000HailBremen-no account filed
April 1998HailBremen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Lynn City1.8 miles14
Gishton2.5 miles16
Jagoe3.0 miles14
Millport3.7 miles14
McDonalds (historical)3.8 miles14
Midland3.9 miles16
Briar Creek4.1 miles14
Moorman4.2 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 BremenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q907410The 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 487858. 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.