New Haven, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the New Haven census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40051. It lies near Strang Knob. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle. 798 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 476 feet above sea level.
On record in New Haven
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 6 records
L & N Steam Locomotive No. 152listed 1974
Louisville and Nashville Combine Car Number 665listed 1997- Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Carlisted 1998
- Silvester Johnson House and Businesslisted 2002
- MT. BRODERICK Pullman Lounge-Obs-Sleeping Carlisted 1997
- New Sherwood Hotellisted 1992
Population over time
3 figuresNew Haven fell from 849 to 798 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 | 849 | |
| 2010 | 855 | +6 (+1%) |
| 2020 | 798 | -57 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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 New Haven quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph, 2020Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
14 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of New Haven between 1998 and 2017, burning about 60 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2008 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 April 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site | KNOB CREEK |
| 13 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HURST FIRE |
| 8 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 March 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HALISY FIRE |
| 5 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 New Haven: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Gap Roadcut | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Haven in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Lightning | New Haven | 2 killed, $25,000 | During the early morning hours of Thursday August 24, 2000, a complex of thunderstorms across South Central Indiana moved south into North Central Kentucky. The area of thunderstorms produced very heavy rain, locally strong winds and frequent lightning. A lightning strike apparently started a fire in a mobile home around 2 AM EST, possibly after striking near a propane tank. Two females, ages 7 and 9, were killed in the mobile home, apparently due to smoke inhalation. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | $50,000 | Three roofs damaged by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | - | Trees and power lines were down near Howardstown Road and Walter Hall Road. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | - | Multiple trees were blown down by strong winds near New Haven. About 600 customers were without power in the area. |
| February 2008 | Flood | New Haven | - | The Rolling Fork River at Boston crested at 35.2 feet around 930 AM EST on February 8. Flood stage at Boston is 35 feet. Minor flooding occurs at this level, with agricultural bottom land covered. |
| January 2006 | Hail | New Haven | - | Penny size hail covered the ground. |
| February 2003 | Flash Flood | New Haven | - | Some creeks and streams were out of their banks. |
| May 2002 | Hail | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | New Haven | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Haven | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Gap | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Gethsemane | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Samuel Pottinger Settlement (historical) | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Culvertown | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| New Hope | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Nelsonville | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Clarktown (historical) | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Howardstown | 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 New Haven | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2598370 | 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 499330. 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.



