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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Population over time
3 figuresDry 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,995 | |
| 2010 | 2,191 | +196 (+10%) |
| 2020 | 2,102 | -89 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1950 USGS Williamstown quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Williamstown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2001Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 January 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Dry Ridge | $150,000 | The 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $20,000 | A 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 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Dry Ridge | $10,000 | The 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $10,000 | The top of a tree broke off and landed on a car due to thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $10,000 | Trees were knocked down across the county. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $10,000 | Camper overturned and roof blown off a shed. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $5,000 | Several trees were downed in the Dry Ridge area, including along Stewart Lane, Kings Drive and Elm Street. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $5,000 | Numerous trees downed across the county. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $4,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $4,000 | Several trees were downed in the Dry Ridge area. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $4,000 | Several trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $3,000 | Trees and large limbs downed. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $3,000 | Numerous large limbs down. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Dry Ridge | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Dry Ridge | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $2,000 | Large limbs were downed. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $1,000 | A tree fell onto and was blocking Knoxville Road. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $1,000 | Large branches were reported broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $500 | A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | $250 | A tree was knocked down on Dixie Highway at Dry Ridge Bypass. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Dry Ridge | - | High water and flooding was reported along I-75 near Barnes Road. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Dry Ridge | - | Water was reported flowing down a hillside and across a roadway in Dry Ridge. |
| July 2014 | Flood | Dry Ridge | - | Heavy rain caused standing water on northbound Interstate 75 just north of the Dry Ridge exit. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Dry Ridge | - | Clark and Stevens Creeks went out of their banks. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Ridge | - | Thunderstorm winds downed powerlines across the central part of the county. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Dry Ridge | - | Hail fell and accumulated so that it was still on the ground 12 hours later. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Dry Ridge | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Dry Ridge | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Dry Ridge | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dry Ridge | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Dry Ridge | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dry Ridge | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campbells Block House (historical) | 0.6 miles | 8 | |
| Reid (historical) | 2.2 miles | 8 | |
| Williamstown | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Sherman | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Northcutt | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Stewartsville | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Delia | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Blackwell (historical) | 5.1 miles | 10 |
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 Ridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2035590 | 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 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.




