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Knottsville, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Whitesville-Philpot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42366. It lies near Indian Hill. The Survey maps it on the Maceo quadrangle. 183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 548 feet above sea level.

Knottsville within Daviess County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Knottsville between 1999 and 2017, burning about 100 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEAN
16 September 2008Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry20 BAIL
12 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 1999Equipment and vehicle use12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 2013Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLD CAR
10 March 2001Debris and open burning23 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knottsville in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2013Thunderstorm WindKnottsville$50,000One barn was blown off its foundation. The roof was blown off another barn.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindKnottsville$25,000no account filed
October 2013Thunderstorm WindKnottsville$4,000A large tree was blown down, blocking Highway 144 near Knottsville. A wind gust measured at 65 mph was reported by a trained spotter in Utica.
July 1995HailKnottsville$3,000no account filed
March 2025HailKnottsville-Quarter size hail fell just northeast of Knottsville.
March 2025HailKnottsville-Ping pong ball size hail occurred just northeast of Knottsville on Highway 951.
August 2025Funnel CloudKnottsville-Numerous photos of a cold air funnel that developed in a nearly stationary cell by Knottsville were taken by the public and relayed by broadcast media.
September 2025HailKnottsville-Report of hail measured to penny size was submitted via mPING. Time was estimated by radar.
May 2018HailKnottsville-The hail was reported along the Hancock County line.
April 2006HailKnottsville-no account filed
May 2004Funnel CloudKnottsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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
Saint Lawrence (historical)2.3 miles17
Mount Zion (historical)3.0 miles16
Scythia3.5 miles16
Ensor4.2 miles16
Bethlehem (historical)4.3 miles16
Spice Knob4.7 miles16
Gatewood4.7 miles17
Grandview5.1 miles13

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 KnottsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6423124The 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 495855. 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.