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New Castle, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the New Castle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40050. The Survey maps it on the New Castle quadrangle. 884 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

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New Castle within Henry County

On record in New Castle

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

New Castle fell from 912 to 884 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
2010912
2020884-28 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of New Castle between 2002 and 2014, burning about 127 acres in total. 1 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 ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
20 July 2002Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burning97 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2014Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUAIL RUN
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Castle in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 21 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Flash FloodNew Castle$10,000A car was washed into a stream adjacent to Hillsboro Road two miles northwest of New Castle. Two to three feet of water covered the road. Other roads were flooded and impassable near Pendleton.
February 2000Flash FloodNew Castle$10,000High school flooded
July 2009Thunderstorm WindNew Castle$2,000Trees downed in New Castle.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-An area of concentrated tree damage from strong winds was observed along Lagrange Road west of New Castle.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-A tree was reported down in New Castle.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-There were multiple trees reported down at East Cross Main Street.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-There were multiple trees reported down at Lagrange Road.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-A law enforcement official reported several trees down across the county.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-A law enforcement official reported trees down in the area.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-A localized downburst brought a few trees down in New Castle. Local law enforcement reported a few trees toppled along Herndon Lane, as well as Orem and LaGrange Roads. Another tree was reported downed just to the west of New Castle near the intersection of Highway 146 and Sulfur Road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees were blown down county-wide.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Several trees were blown down in the New Castle area.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees were downed.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Large limbs were blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees were downed.
June 2002Flash FloodNew Castle-Flood waters closed Highway 146 near New Castle.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees and power lines down
May 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees were downed along Highway 146 between New Castle and Pendleton.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Several trees knocked down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-Trees blown down on Highway 421. Tents were blown down at the Fairgrounds. Report from Henry County Dispatch.
April 2017HailNew Castle-no account filed
April 2011HailNew Castle-no account filed
May 2009HailNew Castle-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-no account filed
August 2000HailNew Castle-no account filed
April 1999HailNew Castle-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-no account filed
June 1998HailNew Castle-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindNew Castle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry County

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
Point Pleasant3.8 miles9
Eminence4.4 miles10
Delville4.9 miles9
Bellview5.5 miles10
Smithfield5.6 miles13
Bethlehem5.8 miles9
North Pleasureville6.1 miles10
Franklinton6.2 miles9

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 New CastleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3182061The 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 499296. 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.