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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.

New Haven within Nelson County

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

Population over time

3 figures

New 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.

YearPeople Change
2000849
2010855+6 (+1%)
2020798-57 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2020

Taken 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.

Train-themed wall drawing at the Kentucky Railroad Museum in New Haven, Kentucky
Train-themed wall drawing at the Kentucky Railroad Museum in New Haven, Kentucky
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

14 since 1998

Regional 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 ceremony8
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
17 August 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresAbraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic SiteKNOB CREEK
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHURST FIRE
8 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 1998Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHALISY FIRE
5 November 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nelson 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blue Gap RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Nelson County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2000LightningNew Haven2 killed, $25,000During 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 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Haven$50,000Three roofs damaged by thunderstorm winds.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Haven-Trees and power lines were down near Howardstown Road and Walter Hall Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Haven-Multiple trees were blown down by strong winds near New Haven. About 600 customers were without power in the area.
February 2008FloodNew 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 2006HailNew Haven-Penny size hail covered the ground.
February 2003Flash FloodNew Haven-Some creeks and streams were out of their banks.
May 2002HailNew Haven-no account filed
November 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Haven-no account filed
April 1997HailNew Haven-no account filed
April 1997HailNew Haven-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindNew Haven-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nelson 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
Blue Gap2.5 miles9
Gethsemane2.7 miles9
Samuel Pottinger Settlement (historical)3.6 miles9
Culvertown4.7 miles9
New Hope4.7 miles9
Nelsonville5.7 miles10
Clarktown (historical)5.8 miles8
Howardstown5.9 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 HavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2598370The 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.