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Bullittsville, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hebron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41048. The Survey maps it on the Burlington quadrangle. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Bullittsville within Boone County

On record in Bullittsville

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bullittsville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
D & M Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Taylorsport MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bullittsville in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2009Flash FloodBullittsville$60,000Six homes were flooded along Petersburg Road with water also rushing over Petersburg Road. Three structures collapsed in this area. A church was also surrounded by water due to the flash flooding.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBullittsville$5,000Several trees were downed.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBullittsville$1,000Several power poles were knocked down.
August 2008HailBullittsville$1,000Penny size hail fell near the Interstate 275-State Route 237 interchange.
July 2023Flash FloodBullittsville-High water was flowing across Worldwide Boulevard.
April 2014Heavy RainBullittsville-A drainage ditch was overflowing across an Interstate 275 entrance ramp due to heavy rainfall.
May 2014HailBullittsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Hebron2.1 miles20
Francisville2.2 miles20
Taylorsport2.9 miles20
Idlewild3.0 miles16
Burlington3.4 miles20
Bullittsburg (historical)3.9 miles20
Limaburg4.7 miles20
Stringtown4.9 miles20

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 BullittsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4996965The 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 488375. 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.

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.