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.
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
Fryer Houselisted 1976
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Wood-Covered Bridge, Spanning Main Licking River, Butlerfederal building survey, 6 photographs
Population over time
3 figuresButler 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 613 | |
| 2010 | 612 | -1 (-0%) |
| 2020 | 646 | +34 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1929 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:48000
- 1936 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Butler quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Butler quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
2 since 2001Regional 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/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Carntown Limekiln | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Tornado (F2) | Butler | 2 hurt, $75,000 | no account filed |
| January 2000 | Flash Flood | Butler | $50,000 | Persistent heavy rainfall caused creeks and streams to rise out of their banks. Five bridges were submerged by the water. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $15,000 | A barn was blown over due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $5,000 | Trees were reported down across roadways at several locations around the Butler and Greenwood areas due to thunderstorm winds. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $3,000 | Trees were downed. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $3,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $3,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $3,000 | A few trees were knocked down in the northern part of the county. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $3,000 | Several trees knocked down. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $2,000 | An outbuilding was destroyed. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $1,000 | A tree fell onto a roadway. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $1,000 | Multiple trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | $1,000 | Two trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2025 | Flood | Butler | - | A man died of a heart attack while launching his canoe into the flooded Licking River. |
| April 2021 | Flood | Butler | - | High water was reported on Taylor Street. |
| April 2015 | Flood | Butler | - | High water was covering Kentucky Route 177 and River Road in Butler. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| November 2011 | Hail | Butler | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Butler | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meridian | 1.1 miles | 10 | |
| Flower Town (historical) | 1.3 miles | 10 | |
| Caldwell | 1.8 miles | 11 | |
| Boston | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Greenwood | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| DeMossville | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Menzie | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Portland | 4.9 miles | 10 |
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 Butler | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q783174 | The 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.






