Crestwood, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pewee Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40014. The Survey maps it on the Crestwood quadrangle. 6,183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.
On record in Crestwood
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 7 records
Harrods Creek Baptist Church and Rev. William Kellar Houselisted 1976- Bradshaw-Duncan Houselisted 2005
- Carpenter-Smith Houselisted 1982
- Albert E. Clore Houselisted 1983
- Waldeck Farmlisted 2001
- Woodlandlisted 2016
- Yew Dell Farmlisted 2011
Population over time
3 figuresCrestwood grew from 1,999 to 6,183 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,999 | |
| 2010 | 4,531 | +2,532 (+127%) |
| 2020 | 6,183 | +1,652 (+36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1932 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Crestwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Crestwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Crestwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Crestwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Crestwood: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avoca Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Crestwood Mine Underground | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Crestwood Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Oldham County Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crestwood in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | $5,000 | Power lines were downed and a railroad crossing gate was broken by thunderstorm winds. |
| February 2025 | Flash Flood | Crestwood | - | Flash flooding reported near Crestwood. |
| January 2023 | Hail | Crestwood | - | Multiple reports of quarter size hail were received from the Crestwood area. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Crestwood | - | Numerous roads were closed in the city by high water. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Crestwood | - | Golfball size hail was reported between Interstate 71 and Crestwood. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Crestwood | - | There were numerous reports of large hail from the Crestwood area. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floydsburg | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| Pewee Valley | 1.2 miles | 12 | |
| Rollington | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| Park Lake | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| Fraziertown | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Glenarm | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Lake Louisvilla | 2.3 miles | 16 | |
| Orchard Grass Hills | 2.6 miles | 16 |
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 Crestwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2030859 | 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 490334. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.







