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Guthrie, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Guthrie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42234. The Survey maps it on the Guthrie quadrangle. 1,330 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 548 feet above sea level.

Guthrie within Todd County

On record in Guthrie

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Guthrie fell from 1,419 to 1,330 between 2010 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
20101,419
20201,330-89 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 1940

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Immediately on entering state of Kentucky the greater increased number of liquor signs is very noticeable. Guthrie, Kentucky
Immediately on entering state of Kentucky the greater increased number of liquor signs is very noticeable. Guthrie, Kentucky
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Immediately on entering state of Kentucky the greater increased number of liquor signs is very noticeable. Guthrie, Kentucky
Immediately on entering state of Kentucky the greater increased number of liquor signs is very noticeable. Guthrie, Kentucky
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Guthrie in 1999, burning about 4 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/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
14 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guthrie in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 5 hail, 4 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
September 2017Flash FloodGuthrie$350,000Flash flooding in Guthrie prompted evacuations on several residential streets. Homes began flooding before sunrise. Rescue boats were brought in from Muhlenberg County to assist with evacuations. Over 20 homes and businesses were flooded in the Guthrie area. Six of the homes were uninhabitable after sustaining major damage. Three to four feet of water covered the low-lying neighborhood that was evacuated. Standing water over Highways 181 and 171 slowed traffic, but the roads were passable. All county schools were closed due to flooding. A storm total rainfall of 7.81 inches was reported at the Kentucky mesonet site five miles southwest of Elkton. Most of this rain fell in a 24-hour period. A Cocorahs (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow) network observer in Guthrie measured 7.10 inches.
November 2025Tornado (EF1)Guthrie$100,000An EF-1 tornado (with peak winds of 98mph) began north of Guthrie where several trees were snapped. The narrow tornado moved east across open fields where it flipped a pivot irrigation system. It destroyed a small outbuilding and damaged other smaller buildings nearby. Several power poles were snapped along US-79 and the intersection of US-79 and KY-848.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindGuthrie$80,000A microburst, as relayed by the county emergency management director, downed at least 50 to 100 trees or tree limbs along with power lines in a Guthrie subdivision. Damage area was less than 1/4 mile wide and less than 1/8 mile long. Some trees fell on cars, however tree damage to homes was very limited.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGuthrie$15,000Numerous trees were blown down. A wall was blown over at Guthrie.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindGuthrie$10,000Numerous trees were down across the county.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGuthrie$10,000Downed tree limbs and power lines were reported.
July 2002HailGuthrie$10,000Baseball size hail was reported along Highway 181 about 4 miles northwest of Guthrie. Vehicles were dented. In Guthrie, quarter size hail was reported. The large hail was caused by a severe thunderstorm that drifted slowly north across the Guthrie area from Tennessee.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGuthrie$5,000Several trees were blown down on the southeast side of Guthrie, near the Tennessee state line. Tin was blown off a barn.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindGuthrie$3,000A power pole and lines were blown down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGuthrie$2,000A tree was down on a power line.
February 2025Flash FloodGuthrie-Flash flooding inundated roads and threatened homes in the Guthrie area.
May 2024Flash FloodGuthrie-Water over the road was reported in Guthrie. Rainfall amounts of 2-4 inches had occurred between 0430CST-0830CST on the TN border. Flooding issues transitioned from flash flood to flood mid-morning.
May 2024FloodGuthrie-Lingering flooding occurred through the day on the 8th, with additional rainfall during the evening continuing flooding issues into the overnight hours. Total rainfall accumulations in Guthrie reached a radar estimated 5-7 inches.
August 2023Flash FloodGuthrie-Water was over roadways in Guthrie and Trenton.
July 2020Flash FloodGuthrie-Several streets in Guthrie were covered with water, including Highways 181 and 41.
February 2018FloodGuthrie-Several roads were flooded in the south part of Guthrie. Water was over a couple of roads near Elkton, including Highway 475.
December 2017FloodGuthrie-Several roads in Guthrie were closed due to high water. Water was over Highway 181 near U.S. Highway 41 west of Guthrie. Water was also reported over Highway 848 north of Guthrie. Two to three inches of rain fell over the area in the preceding 12 hours or so.
September 2015Heavy RainGuthrie-Over four inches of water was flowing across Highway 848.
February 2014FloodGuthrie-Many streets were flooded in and around the community of Guthrie.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindGuthrie-Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGuthrie-Trees were down on Highway 346.
June 1997Flash FloodGuthrie-Thunderstorms moved slowly over the same local parts of southern Todd County. Radar estimated up to 2.7 inches of rain fell in three hours between Elkton and Guthrie. Several roads were reported under water at the time of heaviest rain.
April 2014HailGuthrie-no account filed
February 2009HailGuthrie-no account filed
March 2002HailGuthrie-no account filed
March 1996HailGuthrie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Tiny Town1.8 miles7
Hadensville2.4 miles7
Anderson3.3 miles7
Darnell4.1 miles6
Pinchem4.1 miles7
Hermon6.5 miles7
Allensville7.1 miles6
Zion7.2 miles7

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 GuthrieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3182203The 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 493506. 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.