Maceo, 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 42355. It lies near Wolf Hill. The Survey maps it on the Maceo quadrangle. 404 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 390 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMaceo fell from 413 to 404 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 | 413 | |
| 2020 | 404 | -9 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1903 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1953 USGS Maceo quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Maceo between 2010 and 2013, burning about 12 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 ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 March 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | OLD CAR |
| 11 March 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Maceo: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daviess County Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kapco Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| No. 9 Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rockport Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maceo in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maceo | $10,000 | A barn was destroyed. At least 30 trees were blown down in a low area along Blackford Creek. The tree blowdown covered about a half-mile stretch along the creek. Embedded within this area was evidence of a small gustnado, a brief vertically-spinning column of air that is ground-based and not rooted in the storm cloud. The wind speeds increased to as much as 100 mph within the brief spin-up, snapping trees. The damage was in the extreme northeast corner of the county along the Ohio River and the Hancock County line. The damage continued into Hancock County. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maceo | $4,000 | Trees were blown down, and a mobile home was damaged. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maceo | - | The 61 MPH gust was measured by a trained spotter. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Maceo | - | Two trees were blown down. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Maceo | - | Hail up to the size of golf balls fell in the Maceo area. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Maceo | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yelvington | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Haywood Chapel (historical) | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Pates (historical) | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Chestnut Grove (historical) | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Spice Knob | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Bethlehem (historical) | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Thruston | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Mount Zion (historical) | 5.1 miles | 16 |
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 Maceo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q955180 | 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 497423. 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.






