McHenry, Kentucky
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the McHenry-Rockport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42320. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle. 369 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMcHenry fell from 417 to 369 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 417 | |
| 2010 | 388 | -29 (-7%) |
| 2020 | 369 | -19 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1909 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
52 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of McHenry between 1998 and 2011, burning about 2,156 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | 70 FIRE |
| 13 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simmons | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Beaver Dam | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Ken Wye | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Nineteen | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Echols | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Centertown | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Scottown | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Hartford | 4.8 miles | 11 |
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 McHenry | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3182279 | 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 497881. 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.






