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Elk Horn, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Campbellsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42733. It stands on Sprat Branch. The Survey maps it on the Campbellsville quadrangle. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Elk Horn within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Elk Horn between 1998 and 2019, burning about 96 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 June 2002Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 May 2001Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2008Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elk Horn in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2010Flash FloodElk Horn$20,000A swift water rescue occurred on Highway 70 east of Campbellsville. Two people were successfully rescued from their vehicle.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindElk Horn$5,000A trained spotter reported that a tree fell down on power lines on Highway 70 approximately 3 miles southeast of Campbellsville.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindElk Horn-The emergency manager relayed a report of several trees down along Speck Ridge Road.
June 2004HailElk Horn-Hail up to the size of a quarter fell in many locations near the Green River Lake. The largest hail was reported near the Smith Ridge Marina on Green River Lake.
May 2025HailElk Horn-no account filed
July 2018HailElk Horn-no account filed
May 2017HailElk Horn-no account filed
November 2002HailElk Horn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Atchison1.0 miles11
South Campbellsville2.4 miles11
Acton2.9 miles9
Yuma3.4 miles9
Campbellsville3.5 miles11
Arista3.7 miles11
Hatcher4.6 miles11
Wooleyville4.8 miles9

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 Elk HornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5364028The 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 507921. 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.