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Cerulean, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Cerulean census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42215. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gracey quadrangle. 303 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 512 feet above sea level.

Cerulean within Trigg County

Population over time

2 figures

Cerulean fell from 314 to 303 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
2010314
2020303-11 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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, 1916

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.

Archie Haydon, 12 years old helping his father, John A. Haydon worm tobacco. Father says their school (Cerulean) was not opened until the first Monday in September on account of so many children needed for work. Location: Trigg County--Cerulean, Kentucky
Archie Haydon, 12 years old helping his father, John A. Haydon worm tobacco. Father says their school (Cerulean) was not opened until the first Monday in September on account of so many children needed for work. Location: Trigg County--Cerulean, Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress

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 Cerulean between 1999 and 2010, burning about 108 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
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
1 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2009Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2007Smoking60 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 November 1999Smoking3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMILLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trigg County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cerulean in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 2016HailCerulean$80,000Hail up to the size of tennis balls fell for about seven minutes. This supercell thunderstorm also spawned a weak tornado in the Cerulean area.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCerulean$30,000Emergency management reported trees down and pea size hail in Cerulean, KY. Media relayed a report of a hay barn destroyed in Cerulean.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindCerulean$5,000A carport was blown down by thunderstorm winds as a storm moved northwestward through Cerulean Springs.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCerulean$5,000Trees were blown down, and power outages were reported.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCerulean$3,000Large tree limbs over two inches in diameter were down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCerulean$2,000A few trees were down along Highway 126.
February 2025Flash FloodCerulean-Brushy Grove Creek flooded Highway 126 making it impassable. Portions of Wallonia Road (Highway 128) and Barefield Road (Highway 1507) were also closed due to flood waters. The flooding was generally centered around the community of Cerulean.
May 2017HailCerulean-In Cerulean, hail just under two inches in diameter was photographed alongside a tape measure. One-inch hail was observed by a trained spotter near the Cadiz exit (exit 65) on Interstate 24.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindCerulean-A trained spotter reported a wind gust to 60 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCerulean-A trained spotter measured a wind gust to 60 mph.
July 2015Heavy RainCerulean-Nearly six inches of rain was measured for the calendar day. The rain occurred mostly in two thunderstorm complexes, one during the pre-dawn hours and another late in the evening. There was standing water in numerous fields. Water went over several roads.
July 2015Heavy RainCerulean-Some water covered several roads. A rainfall amount of 2.5 inches was measured in one hour and 45 minutes.
July 2004Flash FloodCerulean-Radar estimated rainfall rates around 2 inches per hour in thunderstorms. Water was over a few roadways just southeast of Cadiz and near Cerulean.
June 2009HailCerulean-no account filed
June 2007HailCerulean-no account filed
May 2000Flash FloodCerulean-no account filed
June 1998HailCerulean-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindCerulean-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trigg 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
Buffalo3.0 miles6
Wallonia4.0 miles7
Montgomery5.8 miles6
Black Hawk8.9 miles8
Cadiz9.3 miles7
Caledonia9.6 miles8
Cedar Point11.6 miles7
Trigg Furnace12.9 miles8

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 CeruleanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5065293The 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 489295. 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.