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Butler, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Butler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41006. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Butler quadrangle. 646 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 545 feet above sea level.

Butler within Pendleton County

On record in Butler

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Butler grew from 613 to 646 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
2000613
2010612-1 (-0%)
2020646+34 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Wood-Covered Bridge, Spanning Main Licking River, Butler, Pendleton County, KY
Wood-Covered Bridge, Spanning Main Licking River, Butler, Pendleton County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Butler between 2001 and 2002, burning about 23 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
12 April 2001Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 February 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pendleton County

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 Butler: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. 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
Butler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Carntown LimekilnStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Pendleton County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butler in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 1996Tornado (F2)Butler2 hurt, $75,000no account filed
January 2000Flash FloodButler$50,000Persistent heavy rainfall caused creeks and streams to rise out of their banks. Five bridges were submerged by the water.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindButler$15,000A barn was blown over due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindButler$5,000Trees were reported down across roadways at several locations around the Butler and Greenwood areas due to thunderstorm winds.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindButler$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindButler$3,000Trees were downed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindButler$3,000A few trees were downed.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindButler$3,000Several trees were downed.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindButler$3,000A few trees were knocked down in the northern part of the county.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindButler$3,000Trees were knocked down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindButler$3,000Several trees knocked down.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindButler$2,000An outbuilding was destroyed.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindButler$1,000A tree fell onto a roadway.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindButler$1,000Multiple trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindButler$1,000Two trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2025FloodButler-A man died of a heart attack while launching his canoe into the flooded Licking River.
April 2021FloodButler-High water was reported on Taylor Street.
April 2015FloodButler-High water was covering Kentucky Route 177 and River Road in Butler.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindButler-Several trees were blown down.
November 2011HailButler-no account filed
May 2003HailButler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pendleton 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
Meridian1.1 miles10
Flower Town (historical)1.3 miles10
Caldwell1.8 miles11
Boston1.9 miles10
Greenwood2.6 miles11
DeMossville2.8 miles11
Menzie3.6 miles10
Portland4.9 miles10

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 ButlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q783174The 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 488500. 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.