Cecilia, Kentucky
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cecilia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42724. The Survey maps it on the Cecilia quadrangle. 575 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 705 feet above sea level.
On record in Cecilia
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
- Heller Hotellisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresCecilia grew from 572 to 575 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 | 572 | |
| 2020 | 575 | +3 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1935 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:48000
- 1938 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Cecilia quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Cecilia quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Cecilia quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Cecilia quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cecilia between 1999 and 2014, burning about 446 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MOBLEY |
| 6 September 1999 | Smoking | 201 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 117 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 95 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WEST RHUDES CREEK |
| 26 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JAMES DUVALL FIRE |
| 21 February 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cecilia in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2006 | Tornado (F2) | Cecilia | $2,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | $250,000 | Numerous trees were blown down, some were blown on to mobile homes. Power lines were downed. A cell tower was blown over. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | $15,000 | Local broadcast media reported power outages due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | $2,000 | Power lines were downed just to the east of Cecilia. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | Power poles were blown down along Kentucky Route 86 in Cecilia. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | A railroad crossing gate was broken at its hinges along Hayden School Road. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | There were numerous trees down and limbs snapped on North Branch Road. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | Trees were down along Leitchfield Road. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | There was a small building blown off of its foundation with debris blown approximately 800 feet downwind. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | The public reported that power poles were knocked down by thunderstorm winds. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | Dispatch reported two trees down in Hardin County. One fell along Valley Creek near Elizabethtown. The other fell along Harris School Road near Cecilia. |
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Cecilia | - | High water briefly blocked the entrance to the Dollar General Store along Highway 62 near Cecilia. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | Trees were reported downed in Cecilia. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Cecilia | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Cecilia | - | Brief tornado touchdown relayed by HAM radio operator. Intensity probably F1. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Cecilia | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cecilia | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint John | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Hansbrough | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Gaithers | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Franklin Cross Roads | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Kraft | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Stephensburg | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Star Mills | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Old Stephensburg | 4.9 miles | 18 |
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 Cecilia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3248536 | 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 489160. 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.
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.









