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Dry Ridge, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Williamstown-Dry Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41035. The Survey maps it on the Williamstown quadrangle. 2,102 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

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Dry Ridge within Grant County

Population over time

3 figures

Dry Ridge grew from 1,995 to 2,102 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,995
20102,191+196 (+10%)
20202,102-89 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Dry Ridge between 2001 and 2006, burning about 33 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
28 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 March 2001Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 January 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

35 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dry Ridge in 35 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 20 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2023Tornado (EF0)Dry Ridge$150,000The tornado appeared to first touch down at a residence along Arlington Court, where part of the roof was removed. Shingles, roof sheathing and insulation were lifted and blown several hundred yards to the east northeast of the residence. Minor siding and roof damage occurred to a neighboring house. In addition, insulation from the first house was back spattered on the east facing garage of the second house.||The tornado continued to track east northeast across Arnie Risen Boulevard, where a tree was downed and a street sign was bent to the ground. The tornado then crossed a tree line, where several trees and large branches were downed, before it crossed a set of railroad tracks and U.S. Route 25. Just east of here, a steel warehouse building suffered partial roof uplift and roof damage. Two door frames on opposite sides of the building were blown inward and a large steel cross beam was bent from the apparent roof uplift. In addition, the soffit around the building was damaged. This appeared to be the peak intensity of the tornado where winds of 85 mph were estimated.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$20,000A barn was blown into the middle of Warsaw Road. Two additional barns were knocked down along Bannister Road. Debris from a building was scattered across US Route 25 between Dry Ridge and Crittenden. Power poles were also downed.
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Dry Ridge$10,000The tornado touched down 3.5 miles east of the Mt. Zion area, on the western fringe of Williamstown Lake, along Peaceful Hollow Road. Several outbuildings and barns sustained roof damage, as well as some roof damage to homes.||The tornado then moved into Pendleton County at 21:50 EST and ended in Pendleton County near Milford Road at 22:07 EST.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$10,000The top of a tree broke off and landed on a car due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$10,000Trees were knocked down across the county.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$10,000Camper overturned and roof blown off a shed.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$5,000Several trees were downed in the Dry Ridge area, including along Stewart Lane, Kings Drive and Elm Street.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$5,000Numerous trees downed across the county.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$4,000Several trees were downed.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$4,000Several trees were downed in the Dry Ridge area.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$4,000Several trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$3,000Trees were knocked down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$3,000Trees and power lines were downed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$3,000Trees were knocked down.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$3,000Trees and large limbs downed.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$3,000Numerous large limbs down.
April 2009HailDry Ridge$3,000no account filed
May 1996HailDry Ridge$3,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$2,000Large limbs were downed.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$1,000A tree fell onto and was blocking Knoxville Road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$1,000Large branches were reported broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$500A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge$250A tree was knocked down on Dixie Highway at Dry Ridge Bypass.
May 2020Flash FloodDry Ridge-High water and flooding was reported along I-75 near Barnes Road.
May 2018Flash FloodDry Ridge-Water was reported flowing down a hillside and across a roadway in Dry Ridge.
July 2014FloodDry Ridge-Heavy rain caused standing water on northbound Interstate 75 just north of the Dry Ridge exit.
July 2003Flash FloodDry Ridge-Clark and Stevens Creeks went out of their banks.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDry Ridge-Thunderstorm winds downed powerlines across the central part of the county.
May 2000HailDry Ridge-Hail fell and accumulated so that it was still on the ground 12 hours later.
April 2015HailDry Ridge-no account filed
May 2012HailDry Ridge-no account filed
March 2012HailDry Ridge-no account filed
May 2011HailDry Ridge-no account filed
June 2009HailDry Ridge-no account filed
April 2001HailDry Ridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Campbells Block House (historical)0.6 miles8
Reid (historical)2.2 miles8
Williamstown3.4 miles8
Sherman3.5 miles8
Northcutt3.6 miles8
Stewartsville4.6 miles7
Delia4.6 miles7
Blackwell (historical)5.1 miles10

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 Dry RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2035590The 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 491228. 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.