BlockCarlinburg, Kentucky
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Spottsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42301. The Survey maps it on the Yankeetown quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1905 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Yankeetown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Yankeetown quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Carlinburg between 2010 and 2013, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DUMP |
| 6 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.1 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | REED FIRE |
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 Carlinburg: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warrick Aluminum Reduction Plant | Aluminum, Contained or Metal | Plant |
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlinburg in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Flood | Carlinburg | - | Minor flooding of agricultural bottomland occurred near Newburgh. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Carlinburg | - | Moderate flooding continued on the Ohio River from February into March. At the Owensboro river gage, the river crested on February 17th. Low-lying woodlands and fields in the river bottomlands were flooded. Numerous roads were flooded, including some state roads. Backwater from the Ohio River caused flooding near the mouth of the Green River, which flooded roads in eastern Henderson County. Flooded roads extended inland to near Hebbardsville. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Carlinburg | - | Minor flooding of the Ohio River occurred. At the Newburgh, IN gage, where flood stage is 38 feet, the river crested at 41.90 feet on the 13th. Agricultural bottomland and low-lying areas were flooded. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Carlinburg | - | One tree and dozens of tree limbs were blown down in a tree row in the center of a very large field. The damage was in agricultural bottomland of the Ohio River. Peak winds in this portion of the track were near 65 mph. The tornado continued into Daviess 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reed | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Scuffletown | 3.8 miles | 17 | |
| Beals | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Spottsville | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Bluff City | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Baskett | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Hebbardsville | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Zion | 9.7 miles | 14 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122558488 | 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 507654. 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.