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Millersburg, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Millersburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40348. It stands on Big Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Millersburg quadrangle. 747 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Millersburg within Bourbon County

On record in Millersburg

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Millersburg fell from 792 to 747 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.

YearPeople Change
2010792
2020747-45 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Millersburg in 1999, burning about 2 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
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
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Bourbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Millersburg: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nicholas County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millersburg in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMillersburg1 killed, 2 hurt, $10,000no account filed
December 2013Tornado (EF1)Millersburg$150,000A survey confirmed that an EF-1 tornado was embedded within a severe squall line that brought widespread damage to northern Bourbon County. An area of concentrated damage was surveyed along Colville and Steele Ford Roads as well as Endicott Lane. Along these roads several large barns and outbuildings were either destroyed or heavily damaged. EF-1 damage was confirmed along Endicott Lane as some well-anchored barn footers were lifted up and thrown 75 yards. Several residents also reported a loud roar within torrential rain as the line of storms passed.
May 2011HailMillersburg$15,000Numerous reports of damaging hail around Millersburg. The Millersburg fire department reported a funnel cloud and 1.75 inch hail.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindMillersburg$5,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-A tree was over a road in Millersburg.
May 2020Flash FloodMillersburg-Highway 1879 was closed due to high water.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-A tree fell on a house.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-A tree was down on Steel Ford Road.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-Several trees were blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-Trees were blown down.
May 2011HailMillersburg-no account filed
May 2000HailMillersburg-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMillersburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon County

Newspapers printed here

420 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 104 issues, 420 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Bourbon News1881 to 1883

What the paper printed

15,613 words

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 5 issues all from 1882, 15,613 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

IssuePaper Length
1882-03-07The Bourbon News2,266 words
1882-04-21The Bourbon News3,592 words
1882-06-09The Bourbon News3,617 words
1882-08-29The Bourbon News2,949 words
1882-10-17The Bourbon News3,189 words

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
Blacks Crossroads3.6 miles6
Ruddels Mills4.8 miles6
Jackstown6.1 miles5
Currentsville6.2 miles8
Shawhan6.6 miles8
Kiserton7.0 miles8
Ewalt Crossroads8.3 miles8
Paris8.5 miles11

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 MillersburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2029310The 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 498363. 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.