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Glencoe, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Warsaw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41046. The Survey maps it on the Glencoe quadrangle. 350 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 548 feet above sea level.

Glencoe within Gallatin County

Population over time

3 figures

Glencoe grew from 251 to 350 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
2000251
2010360+109 (+43%)
2020350-10 (-3%)

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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Glencoe between 2002 and 2017, burning about 53 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 April 2014Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryVERA CRUZ
6 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 455 FIRE
11 November 2014Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryVERA CRUZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallatin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Glencoe: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Barium-Barite, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Waits MineLead, Barium-Barite, ZincPast Producer1904, 1940

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glencoe in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 16 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 3 hail, 3 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
December 2013Flash FloodGlencoe$30,000Rushing water due to heavy rainfall ripped up pavement on Highway 467 between Highway 35 and Route 127.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$15,000Several large trees were downed. Powerlines were also knocked down and the roof was taken off of a house.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$10,000Numerous trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$5,000A few trees were downed. A barn sustained minor damage.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$5,000Numerous trees and powerlines were blown down throughout town.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$5,000Numerous trees were knocked down.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$3,000A few trees were downed on U.S. 127 and Route 455.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$3,000Trees knocked down along Highway 455 between U.S. 127 and Highway 416.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$3,000Trees and powerlines were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$3,000Trees were knocked down.
February 2021FloodGlencoe$2,000Multiple roads were closed due to high water throughout the county, including U.S. Route 42 and State Route 467. A mudslide was also reported along U.S. Route 42 E.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$1,000A tree was downed on State Route 16.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$1,000A large tree was downed.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$1,000A large tree was knocked down near U.S. 127 near the Owen County line.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$1,000One tree was knocked down on U.S. Highway 127.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$1,000A tree was knocked down at Cemetery Road and Highway 127.
July 2013Flash FloodGlencoe$1,000Multiple roads were closed across the county. Area creeks were also out of their banks due to heavy rainfall.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$1,000Large limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$500Some tree limbs were knocked down near the intersections of Highway 16 and Cemetery Road.
April 2015FloodGlencoe-High water was reported over roadways near Glencoe.
April 2015FloodGlencoe-Several creeks were out of their banks in the area. Also, some roads were covered with water.
April 2015FloodGlencoe-Glencoe-Sparta Road to Glencoe-Folsom Road was closed due to flooding.
July 2013FloodGlencoe-A water rescue occurred at Glencoe-Sparta Road on Eagle Creek due to heavy rainfall.
April 1998Flash FloodGlencoe-Persistent heavy rainfall caused water to flood across roads.
May 2019HailGlencoe-no account filed
November 2000HailGlencoe-no account filed
April 1993HailGlencoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gallatin 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
Napoleon3.6 miles12
Sparta5.2 miles8
Warsaw6.3 miles11
Munk7.9 miles9
Ethridge7.9 miles11
Ryle7.9 miles9
Steeles Creek (historical)8.3 miles12

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 GlencoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2288919The 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 492891. 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.

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.