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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.

Caneyville within Grayson County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Caneyville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010608
2020529-79 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

17 since 1998

Regional 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 burning7
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMORGANTOWN RD.
23 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryPINE KNOB
22 April 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHUDSON RD.
29 March 1998Debris and open burning16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 1999Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buck Creek ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

40 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2012HailCaneyville1 hurtno account filed
February 2018FloodCaneyville$250,000The 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 2013Thunderstorm WindCaneyville$10,000Law enforcement reported that a small detached garage blew onto a road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-A tree was blown down in Caneyville.
April 2025Flash FloodCaneyville-A woman was rescued from her home on the 100 block of Blue Creek Drive.
April 2025Flash FloodCaneyville-Water was flowing over the 100 block of Main Street.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-A couple trees were downed by strong winds in Caneyville.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-Trees were down along Highway 62 in Caneyville.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-A tree was down over Highway 62 near Caneyville.
June 2023HailCaneyville-Quarter sized hail was observed in Caneyville.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report of a downed tree that fell from severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2014HailCaneyville-The Grayson County emergency dispatch relayed a report concerning golf-ball sized hail that cracked windshields.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-A vacent mobile home was turned over from straight line winds. Many power outages were noted across the county as well.
April 2011Tornado (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 2011Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-A couple of trees were blown down.
May 2009FloodCaneyville-Flooding was reported on parts of Highway 62 along with street flooding of two to four inches in Caneyville.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-A roof was blown off a building and trees were downed.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-Several power lines were reported down in Caneyville.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-Trees were downed in Caneyville.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-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 2006Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-Numerous trees and power lines were downed.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-Trees were downed.
March 2012HailCaneyville-no account filed
March 2012Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-no account filed
October 2007HailCaneyville-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-no account filed
April 2006HailCaneyville-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-no account filed
May 2003HailCaneyville-no account filed
May 2003HailCaneyville-no account filed
May 2003HailCaneyville-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-no account filed
May 2000HailCaneyville-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCaneyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
Smithview2.5 miles11
Peth3.0 miles12
Do Stop3.3 miles11
Post3.4 miles12
Ready3.7 miles13
Spring Lick3.9 miles11
Pine Knob4.3 miles11
Millwood5.5 miles12

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 CaneyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2630224The 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.