Masonville, Kentucky
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Utica-Stanley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42376. The Survey maps it on the Sutherland quadrangle. 2,129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 423 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMasonville grew from 1,014 to 2,129 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 | 1,014 | |
| 2020 | 2,129 | +1,115 (+110%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1906 USGS Sutherland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Sutherland quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Sutherland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Sutherland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Masonville between 2007 and 2009, 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 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 January 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Masonville in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Masonville | 2 hurt, $20,000 | A tree was down on a mobile home. Two other trees were down in the same area, blocking roads. Two adults were briefly trapped in the mobile home. Both adults received minor injuries but refused medical treatment. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Masonville | $225,000 | A swath of wind damage 9 miles long and up to 3.5 miles wide was surveyed by a National Weather Service damage survey team. The swath began on the west side of U.S. Highway 231 near Masonville. This is the approximate area where the EF-1 tornado lifted from the same storm. A few utility poles were snapped along U.S. Highway 231. The damage swath continued east to the Whitesville area, where about a dozen more utility poles and trees were snapped. The heaviest damage was on the west side of Whitesville, where metal roof panels were blown off a metal manufacturing building on Highway 54. A small grain bin was blown about 150 feet. A barn and carport were destroyed, and a recreational vehicle about 30 feet long was overturned. A couple of greenhouses were heavily damaged. At least one of the downed trees and utility poles was blown across a roadway. Peak winds were estimated near 90 mph on the northwest side of Whitesville. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Masonville | - | Half dollar size hail fell in Masonville. |
| May 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Masonville | - | A funnel cloud was identified and photographed by a trained spotter. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Masonville | - | A funnel cloud briefly touched down in a cornfield, producing no known damage. |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Masonville | - | A spotter reported trees were blown down at Masonville and Moseleyville. |
| May 2000 | Flash Flood | Masonville | - | Nearly stationary thunderstorms dumped flooding rains over a small part of south Daviess County near the junction of U.S. Highway 231 and Kentucky 140. Radar estimated about 6 inches fell within a few hours. Due to the very small area affected and its rural nature, there was no reported property damage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habit | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hunters Ridge | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Red Hill | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Oak Ridge | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Sutherland | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Brook Hill Estates | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Philpot | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hickman (historical) | 4.7 miles | 17 |
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 Masonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q590378 | 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 497667. 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.








