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.
Population over time
2 figuresCerulean 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 314 | |
| 2020 | 303 | -11 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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.
- 1953 USGS Gracey quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Gracey quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1916Taken 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.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
10 since 1999Regional 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 maintenance | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 March 2007 | Smoking | 60 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 November 1999 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MILLS |
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 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Hail | Cerulean | $80,000 | Hail 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cerulean | $30,000 | Emergency management reported trees down and pea size hail in Cerulean, KY. Media relayed a report of a hay barn destroyed in Cerulean. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cerulean | $5,000 | A carport was blown down by thunderstorm winds as a storm moved northwestward through Cerulean Springs. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cerulean | $5,000 | Trees were blown down, and power outages were reported. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cerulean | $3,000 | Large tree limbs over two inches in diameter were down. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cerulean | $2,000 | A few trees were down along Highway 126. |
| February 2025 | Flash Flood | Cerulean | - | 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 2017 | Hail | Cerulean | - | 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cerulean | - | A trained spotter reported a wind gust to 60 mph. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cerulean | - | A trained spotter measured a wind gust to 60 mph. |
| July 2015 | Heavy Rain | Cerulean | - | 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 2015 | Heavy Rain | Cerulean | - | Some water covered several roads. A rainfall amount of 2.5 inches was measured in one hour and 45 minutes. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Cerulean | - | 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 2009 | Hail | Cerulean | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Cerulean | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Flash Flood | Cerulean | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Cerulean | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cerulean | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo | 3.0 miles | 6 | |
| Wallonia | 4.0 miles | 7 | |
| Montgomery | 5.8 miles | 6 | |
| Black Hawk | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Cadiz | 9.3 miles | 7 | |
| Caledonia | 9.6 miles | 8 | |
| Cedar Point | 11.6 miles | 7 | |
| Trigg Furnace | 12.9 miles | 8 |
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 Cerulean | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5065293 | 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 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.




