Monterey, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Monterey-New Columbus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40359. It lies near Honeysuckle Hill. The Survey maps it on the Monterey quadrangle. 112 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 492 feet above sea level.
On record in Monterey
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 1 record
- Monterey Historic Districtlisted 1997
Population over time
3 figuresMonterey fell from 167 to 112 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 | 167 | |
| 2010 | 138 | -29 (-17%) |
| 2020 | 112 | -26 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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 Lockport quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:48000
- 1908 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Monterey between 1998 and 2016, burning about 24 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 May 1998 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 March 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GREENUP RD |
| 28 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SHADY LN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monterey in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monterey | $5,000 | Numerous trees and limbs were downed. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monterey | $5,000 | Trees downed. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monterey | $4,000 | Multiple trees were reported knocked down along Highway 355 from Gratz to Monterey. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monterey | $4,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monterey | $3,000 | Several trees were knocked down along Kentucky Route 355. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monterey | $3,000 | A few trees were knocked down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monterey | $3,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monterey | $2,000 | Trees were reported down in the area due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Monterey | $1,000 | no account filed |
| January 2002 | Flash Flood | Monterey | - | Several roads were flooded with swift moving water in and around town. |
| December 2023 | Hail | Monterey | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Monterey | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Bradleyville (historical) | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Truesville (historical) | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Teresita | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Gratz | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Tacketts Mill | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Hesler | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Pleasant Home | 5.9 miles | 9 |
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 Monterey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2069995 | 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 498496. 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.






