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Catlettsburg, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Catlettsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41129. It stands on Ice Dam Creek. The Survey maps it on the Catlettsburg quadrangle. 1,780 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Catlettsburg within Boyd County

On record in Catlettsburg

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Catlettsburg fell from 1,856 to 1,780 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
20101,856
20201,780-76 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2020

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.

A large Marathon Oil refinery, on the Big Sandy River in the town of Catlettsburg, Kentucky, was built in 1916
A large Marathon Oil refinery, on the Big Sandy River in the town of Catlettsburg, Kentucky, was built in 1916
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Catlettsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 700 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 were 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 burning35
Arson/incendiarism23
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWAYNE AVE.
24 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELIZABETH COURT
21 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT 75 AND RT 52 INTERSECTION
26 June 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8485
3 May 2018Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCK HAVEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Catlettsburg: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, Sulfur. 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
Armco Steel/ Ashland, Ky.IronUnknown
Ashland Oil/ Catlettsburg, Ky.SulfurUnknown
Clinton Shale MineClayPast Producer
Burlington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Burlington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jerrys Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jerrys Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Catlettsburg in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 flood, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2010Flash FloodCatlettsburg$100,000A narrow band of 2 to 3 inches of rain fell. Paddle Creek flooded and damaged houses. About 8 to 9 houses were affected. A few vehicles were also flooded.
March 2021FloodCatlettsburg$20,000In the town of Ashland, the Ohio River rose above its 52 foot flood stage on the second day of March. The river crested at 58 feet on March 3rd and would gradually return to its banks a few days later on the 5th. Backwater caused flooding to occur along Route 3 down into Catlettsburg and surrounding areas of Ashland outside of the flood wall.
March 2011FloodCatlettsburg$20,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCatlettsburg$15,000Trees were blown onto power lines. Electric outages occurred.
January 1998HailCatlettsburg$10,000A few vehicles, plus awning on homes, were dented.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCatlettsburg$5,000Large branches were blown down. Metal roofing was damaged. A section to a privacy fence was blown away.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindCatlettsburg$5,000Part of a metal roof was blown off a house along Oakland Ave. It landed on a transformer.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCatlettsburg$3,000A tree was blown down and fell onto telephone lines, causing a utility pole to break.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCatlettsburg$2,000A few trees fell along Terrace Boulevard and along Route 168.
February 2022FloodCatlettsburg$1,000High water was observed over Walnut Street along US Route 23 in the city of Catlettsburg.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCatlettsburg$1,000Trees were blown down in various locations around town.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCatlettsburg$1,000A few trees and several large branches were blown down.
February 2025FloodCatlettsburg$500The intersection of Barbecue Road and Barbecue Spur was closed for a period of time due to washed out culvert from storms.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCatlettsburg-Trees were blown down.
September 2012HailCatlettsburg-no account filed
April 2011HailCatlettsburg-no account filed
May 2010HailCatlettsburg-no account filed
April 2010HailCatlettsburg-no account filed
June 2008HailCatlettsburg-no account filed
May 2004HailCatlettsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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
Riggs Tract (historical)0.1 miles23
Oakland Addition (historical)0.6 miles23
Big Sandy Junction0.8 miles23
Normal2.8 miles23
Chadwick Creek (historical)3.1 miles22
Cliffside (historical)3.5 miles23
Savage Branch4.2 miles23
Geigers Crossing (historical)4.4 miles22

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 CatlettsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2942981The 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 489094. 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.