Livingston, Kentucky
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Livingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40445. It stands on Gauley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Livingston quadrangle. 166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLivingston fell from 226 to 166 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 226 | |
| 2020 | 166 | -60 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1893 USGS London quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS London quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
351 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 351 fires within 5 miles of Livingston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,511 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 129 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 129 |
| Debris and open burning | 118 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 78 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | CROMER RIDGE |
| 19 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Livingston in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | $7,000 | A large sycamore and several smaller trees were blown down. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | $2,000 | Trees blown down on Highway 490 east of Livingston and on Calloway Branch Road by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Rockcastle County dispatch reported 2 trees blown down on South Wilderness Trail (US-25) near MM2. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Rockcastle 911 Center reported several trees down on South Wilderness Road, 2 miles south of Livingston near the Laurel County line. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Rockcastle 911 reported several trees down on South Wilderness Road, 2 miles south of Livingston, near the Laurel County line. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | A large limb was blown down onto US-25 South, blocking the roadway. |
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | A tree was downed on Piney Branch Road in the Livingston community, according to a public report relayed through television media. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Multiple trees were reported to have been blown down in and near the community of Livingston. |
| January 2022 | Flood | Livingston | - | KY-490 is closed between mile markers 0 and 7 due to high water in the Livingston community. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Livingston | - | An employee at the Family Dollar in Livingston reported that up to quarter-sized hail fell near the store. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | The highway department reported that strong thunderstorm wind gusts caused a tree to fall across KY-1955 between mile markers 1 and 2. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Several trees were blown down in Livingston, including one that fell on a home. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Numerous large limbs and several trees were blown down near Livingston. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Two trees were blown down. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | A tree was blown down on Piney Branch. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Trees were blown down on Red Hill Rd near the Livingston area. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Trees and power lines were blown down in Livingston. |
| December 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Trees were blown down on Red Hill Road. |
| August 2013 | Heavy Rain | Livingston | - | The IFLOWS gage at Livingston measured a 24 hour rainfall total of 2.6 inches. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Numerous trees were down. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Livingston | - | Trees were downed. |
| November 2002 | Hail | Livingston | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Hail | Livingston | - | 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.
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 Livingston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1900504 | 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 513549. 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.






