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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.

Cecilia within Hardin County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Cecilia 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.

YearPeople Change
2010572
2020575+3 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

10 since 1999

Regional 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 burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMOBLEY
6 September 1999Smoking201 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance117 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burning95 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEST RHUDES CREEK
26 March 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJAMES DUVALL FIRE
21 February 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2006Tornado (F2)Cecilia$2,000,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCecilia$250,000Numerous trees were blown down, some were blown on to mobile homes. Power lines were downed. A cell tower was blown over.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCecilia$15,000Local broadcast media reported power outages due to severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCecilia$2,000Power lines were downed just to the east of Cecilia.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCecilia-Power poles were blown down along Kentucky Route 86 in Cecilia.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCecilia-A railroad crossing gate was broken at its hinges along Hayden School Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCecilia-There were numerous trees down and limbs snapped on North Branch Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCecilia-Trees were down along Leitchfield Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCecilia-There was a small building blown off of its foundation with debris blown approximately 800 feet downwind.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindCecilia-The public reported that power poles were knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindCecilia-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 2012Flash FloodCecilia-High water briefly blocked the entrance to the Dollar General Store along Highway 62 near Cecilia.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCecilia-Trees were reported downed in Cecilia.
May 2000HailCecilia-Hail covered the ground.
May 1995Tornado (F1)Cecilia-Brief tornado touchdown relayed by HAM radio operator. Intensity probably F1.
May 2016HailCecilia-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCecilia-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindCecilia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Saint John2.3 miles17
Hansbrough2.9 miles17
Gaithers3.1 miles17
Franklin Cross Roads3.1 miles17
Kraft3.6 miles17
Stephensburg4.4 miles18
Star Mills4.8 miles14
Old Stephensburg4.9 miles18

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 CeciliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3248536The 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.