BlockCraintown, Kentucky
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Perryville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40328. The Survey maps it on the Gravel Switch quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Gravel Switch quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Craintown between 1999 and 2013, burning about 90 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 February 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 January 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SCRUBGRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craintown in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Flood | Craintown | $2,000 | State highway 68, located 2 miles northeast of Gravel Switch, was closed for 45 minutes with around one half foot of water over the road. |
| May 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Craintown | - | An NWS damage survey team determined that an EF2 tornado with peak winds of 125 mph, maximum width of 450 yards, and track length of 5.55 miles initially touched down on the morning of Friday, May 30th in southeastern Washington County, Kentucky.||As the tornado crossed into Boyle County, some hardwoods were noted to be snapped north of Cocanougher Road,|and again in a grove of trees north of White Road. The final |damage point was noted along Battlefield Road about 1.25 miles NNW|of Perryville, were some hardwoods were uprooted and softwoods |were snapped. From here the tornado lifted. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Craintown | - | The Boyle County emergency manager reported that Craintown Road was closed due to flash flooding. Nearby fields had extensive field flooding. Between 3 and 4 inches of rain fell during the day from slow moving thunderstorms. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Craintown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brumfield | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Aliceton | 2.3 miles | 6 | |
| Mitchellsburg | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Perryville | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Sleettown (historical) | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Forkland | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Parksville | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Needmore | 7.7 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507771. 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.