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.
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
Colville Covered Bridgelisted 1974
McKee-Vimont Row Houseslisted 1975- Miller's House at Ruddels Millslisted 1983
- Millersburg Historic Districtlisted 1986
- Joseph L. Stephens Houselisted 1983
- West Millersburg Rural Historic Districtlisted 2007
- Hubbard Williams Houselisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresMillersburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 792 | |
| 2020 | 747 | -45 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1953 USGS Millersburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 1999Regional 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 use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas County Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Storms near this place
13 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | 1 killed, 2 hurt, $10,000 | no account filed |
| December 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Millersburg | $150,000 | A 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 2011 | Hail | Millersburg | $15,000 | Numerous reports of damaging hail around Millersburg. The Millersburg fire department reported a funnel cloud and 1.75 inch hail. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | A tree was over a road in Millersburg. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Millersburg | - | Highway 1879 was closed due to high water. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | A tree fell on a house. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | A tree was down on Steel Ford Road. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | Trees were blown down. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Millersburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Millersburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millersburg | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
420 digitised pages1 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Bourbon News | 1881 to 1883 |
What the paper printed
15,613 wordsFront 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.
| Issue | Paper | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1882-03-07 | The Bourbon News | 2,266 words |
| 1882-04-21 | The Bourbon News | 3,592 words |
| 1882-06-09 | The Bourbon News | 3,617 words |
| 1882-08-29 | The Bourbon News | 2,949 words |
| 1882-10-17 | The Bourbon News | 3,189 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacks Crossroads | 3.6 miles | 6 | |
| Ruddels Mills | 4.8 miles | 6 | |
| Jackstown | 6.1 miles | 5 | |
| Currentsville | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Shawhan | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Kiserton | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Ewalt Crossroads | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Paris | 8.5 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 Millersburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2029310 | 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 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.



