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Burnside, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Burnside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42519. It stands on Big South Fork Cumberland River. The Survey maps it on the Burnside quadrangle. 694 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Burnside within Pulaski County

On record in Burnside

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 4 records

Population over time

3 figures

Burnside grew from 637 to 694 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
2000637
2010611-26 (-4%)
2020694+83 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

68 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Burnside between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,794 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning31
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2

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
16 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 June 2012Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRADIO TOWE
29 June 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRADIO TOWE
23 June 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 June 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 June 2007Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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 Burnside: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Tateville MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnside in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindBurnside1 hurtA person was injured by thunderstorm wind gusts in Burnside.
August 2003LightningBurnside1 hurtOne man was injured when he was struck by lightning.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindBurnside$10,000There were numerous trees blown down in the Burnside and Bronson area.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBurnside$10,000The metal roof was blown off of a business building.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindBurnside$5,000A couple of trees were blown down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBurnside$5,000There were numerous large limbs being torn out trees.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBurnside$2,000Trees and power lines were downed.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBurnside$1,000The amateur radio community reported a tree blown down onto vehicle along Circle Lane in Burnside.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBurnside$1,000A tree was blown down along Homestead Drive.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBurnside$1,000A tree was blown down along County Rd.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBurnside-Reports of several trees down near the Burnside community.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBurnside-A couple of trees were blown down along a small stretch of Highway 27 near General Burnside State Park.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBurnside-A tree was blown on the third hole of the General Burnside State Park Golf Course.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBurnside-A tree was blown down along Lakeshore Drive.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindBurnside-A trained spotter reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 50 mph in the community of Burnside.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBurnside-Power outages were reported in Burnside.
June 2009Funnel CloudBurnside-A member of the public reported seeing a funnel cloud in Burnside.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindBurnside-Tree down on residential property on Highland Avenue.
February 2017HailBurnside-no account filed
July 2008HailBurnside-no account filed
April 2008HailBurnside-no account filed
April 2006HailBurnside-no account filed
June 2006HailBurnside-no account filed
June 2004HailBurnside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Bronston1.2 miles12
Cedar Grove1.9 miles11
Tateville2.0 miles12
Quinton2.9 miles11
Waite (historical)3.5 miles10
Durham (historical)3.6 miles11
Elihu4.0 miles11
Bourbon4.5 miles11

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 BurnsideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969361The 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 511083. 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.