Curdsville, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Utica-Stanley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42301. It stands on Knoblick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Curdsville quadrangle. 94 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Curdsville within Daviess County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1908 USGS Calhoun quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Curdsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Curdsville in 2012, burning under an acre 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	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
8 July 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BROKEN POL

Every fire recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Curdsville in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 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
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Curdsville	$50,000	A severe thunderstorm produced a swath of wind damage from the Henderson County line to the city of Owensboro. Damage to trees and power lines was extensive in the city of Owensboro. Over 10,000 people were without power. A State of Emergency was declared for Daviess County. Close to the Henderson County line, an older wooden barn was blown down in a rural area near the Green River. About nine miles west of Owensboro, a large tree fell, damaging the awning of an apartment building. On the southwest side of Owensboro, the automated observing system at the Owensboro airport measured a wind gust to 61 mph. In the city of Owensboro, widespread tree damage was reported. Some homes were damaged by falling trees.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Curdsville	$5,000	no account filed
March 2019	Flood	Curdsville	-	Moderate flooding on the Ohio and Green Rivers persisted from February into March. The Ohio River crested at Owensboro during February. On the Green River, the crest did not occur until the first day of March. Low-lying woodlands and fields in the river bottomlands were flooded. In Daviess County, about three dozen roads were closed by high water. The closed roads included Lower River Road from U.S. Route 60 to Griffith Station, Rockport Ferry Road, Crooked Creek Road, and other secondary county roads.
February 2019	Flood	Curdsville	-	Moderate flooding occurred on the Ohio and Green Rivers. At the Owensboro river gage, the Ohio River crested at 44.5 feet on the 17th. Flood stage there is 40 feet. Low-lying woodlands and fields in the river bottomlands were flooded. In Daviess County, about three dozen roads were closed by high water. The closed roads included Lower River Road from U.S. Route 60 to Griffith Station, Rockport Ferry Road, Crooked Creek Road, and other secondary county roads.
October 2010	Funnel Cloud	Curdsville	-	A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud south of U.S. Highway 60 and west of West Louisville. Another untrained witness reported a funnel cloud in the same area. The funnel cloud went up and down but did not touch ground.
March 2012	Funnel Cloud	Curdsville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saint Joseph	2.8 miles	13
West Louisville	3.6 miles	13
Birk City	4.3 miles	14
Sorgho	4.6 miles	19
Saint Raphael (historical)	4.9 miles	15
Delaware	5.2 miles	13
Sauer (historical)	6.8 miles	14
Newman	7.3 miles	14

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 Curdsville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5194683	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 490493. 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.