Caneyville, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Caneyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42721. It stands on South Fork Caney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Caneyville quadrangle. 529 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 492 feet above sea level.
On record in Caneyville
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
- Walnut Grove Schoollisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresCaneyville fell from 608 to 529 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 608 | |
| 2020 | 529 | -79 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1922 USGS Leitchfield quadrangle1:48000
- 1925 USGS Leitchfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Caneyville quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Caneyville quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Caneyville between 1998 and 2017, burning about 108 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MORGANTOWN RD. |
| 23 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 May 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PINE KNOB |
| 22 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HUDSON RD. |
| 29 March 1998 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Caneyville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buck Creek Clay | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
40 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caneyville in 40 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 flood, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2012 | Hail | Caneyville | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| February 2018 | Flood | Caneyville | $250,000 | The public reported Caney Creek was out of its bank. In addition there were several reports of road washouts, slippage, erosion, and broken pavement due to flooded roads and high water. |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported that a small detached garage blew onto a road. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | A tree was blown down in Caneyville. |
| April 2025 | Flash Flood | Caneyville | - | A woman was rescued from her home on the 100 block of Blue Creek Drive. |
| April 2025 | Flash Flood | Caneyville | - | Water was flowing over the 100 block of Main Street. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | A couple trees were downed by strong winds in Caneyville. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | Trees were down along Highway 62 in Caneyville. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | A tree was down over Highway 62 near Caneyville. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Caneyville | - | Quarter sized hail was observed in Caneyville. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report of a downed tree that fell from severe thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Caneyville | - | The Grayson County emergency dispatch relayed a report concerning golf-ball sized hail that cracked windshields. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | A vacent mobile home was turned over from straight line winds. Many power outages were noted across the county as well. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Caneyville | - | An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado touched down in Caneyville and lifted a mile east of Caneyville, with a path width of 200 yards and wind speeds to 100 mph. The funnel reached the ground near the intersection of North Main Street and River Park Drive where a tree was blown down onto a restaurant. Next to that location a baseball field had the metal roofs blown off the cinder block dugout with a number of cinder blocks blown several feet east of the dugout. A few trees were snapped as well. About half a mile to the east along US 62 at the Caneyville Milling Company three large empty metal grain bins were moved off their foundations causing damage to nearby objects. A mobile home had its metal roof blown off into a nearby pond and insulation was blown along the ground and into a couple of trees. A tractor trailer was blown over and several trees were uprooted or snapped. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | A couple of trees were blown down. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Caneyville | - | Flooding was reported on parts of Highway 62 along with street flooding of two to four inches in Caneyville. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | A roof was blown off a building and trees were downed. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | Several power lines were reported down in Caneyville. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | Trees were downed in Caneyville. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | A tree was downed and blocking a road in the town of Caneyville. Another tree was blown on to U.S. Highway 62 six miles west of Caneyville. |
| December 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | Numerous trees and power lines were downed. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | Trees were downed. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caneyville | - | 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.
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 Caneyville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2630224 | 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 488876. 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.







