Carrsville, Kentucky
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42081. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rosiclare quadrangle. 48 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 371 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCarrsville fell from 50 to 48 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 | 50 | |
| 2020 | 48 | -2 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 24 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.
- 1916 USGS Golconda quadrangle1:62500
- 1920 USGS Goloonda quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS Golconda quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Rosiclare quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Golconda quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Rosiclare quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1996 USGS Rosiclare quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Carrsville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 52 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CAVE SPRINGS RD. |
| 14 September 1999 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | MOWER |
| 21 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1633 |
| 20 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 November 2017 | Debris and open burning | 7.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | VICK ROAD FIRE |
| 16 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CAVE SPRINGS ROAD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 81 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 81 workings within 5 miles of Carrsville: 65 past producers, 6 prospects, 5 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcoa Shaft Fluorspar Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | Barite, Fluorite, Sphalerite | |
| Burns Mine | Zinc, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Campbell-Crotser | Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead | Prospect | 1972 | |
| Chittenden - Black - Wright | Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite | Prospect | 1919 | |
| Fairview-Blue Diggings Fault | Zinc, Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | 1842, 1941 | |
| Hillside | Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | 1917, 1926 | |
| Illinois - Kentucky Fluorite District | Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Cadmium | Past Producer | Fluorspar, Sphalerite, Galena | |
| Knight Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Knight Shop & Hms Plant | Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Rosiclare Fluorspar - Lead - Zinc District | Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Quartz, Iron, Barium-Barite, Calcium | Past Producer | 1839, 1870 |
Storms near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carrsville in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carrsville | $4,000 | Shingles were blown off the roof of a house. |
| February 2025 | Flood | Carrsville | - | Minor flooding of bottomland and low-lying areas occurred near Golconda. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joy | 3.0 miles | 23 | |
| Lola | 6.5 miles | 21 | |
| Hampton | 7.9 miles | 21 | |
| Burna | 10.5 miles | 19 | |
| Salem | 11.5 miles | 21 | |
| Bayou | 11.8 miles | 21 | |
| Mullikin Junction | 12.1 miles | 19 | |
| Birdsville | 12.8 miles | 21 |
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 Carrsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1988182 | 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 511234. 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.














