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Nortonville, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Nortonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42442. It stands on Pleasant Run. The Survey maps it on the Nortonville quadrangle. 977 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Nortonville within Hopkins County

Population over time

3 figures

Nortonville fell from 1,264 to 977 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
20001,264
20101,204-60 (-5%)
2020977-227 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Nortonville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,504 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAN FIRE
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRED HILL
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 1997Smoking5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2016Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOPKINSVILLE ROAD
10 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nortonville in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 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
October 2007Tornado (EF1)Nortonville$80,000Wooden roofs were removed from two masonry buildings. One tree fell on a house. A gas station canopy was damaged. Power lines were downed due to fallen trees. Tops of trees were torn off, and some trees were uprooted. Peak winds were estimated near 95 mph.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindNortonville$50,000Several trees and power lines were blown down along U.S. Highway 62 from Nortonville to White Plains. One huge tree landed on a house, and another landed on three or four cars. A large tree landed across U.S. 62, blocking traffic.
June 1998HailNortonville$30,000Gof ball size hail fell near the Christian County border on U.S. 41. Vehicles were dented.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNortonville$5,000Large tree limbs were down around the community.
February 2025Flash FloodNortonville-Flash flooding closed a portion of U.S. 62 near Nortonville.
May 2024HailNortonville-A social media post showed hail up to golfball size in Nortonville as a storm tracked to the ENE.
February 2019FloodNortonville-A few state roads were closed or marked with warning signs due to flooding, including parts of Highways 892, 1221, and 502.
February 2019FloodNortonville-Water covered several roads in the White Plains and Nortonville areas.
March 2009Funnel CloudNortonville-A funnel cloud was photographed over Nortonville.
December 2007Heavy RainNortonville-Warning signs were placed at six locations where water was over the roadways. These locations included U.S. Highway 62 at the 16 mile marker, Kentucky 502 at the two and four mile markers, and Kentucky 112 at the 8 mile marker.
June 2006HailNortonville-Quarter size hail occurred at the state police post along the Western Kentucky Parkway at mile marker 40. A few other reports of quarter to half-dollar size hail were received within a couple miles of White Plains during a National Severe Storms Lab (NSSL) experiment.
September 2006Funnel CloudNortonville-A large funnel cloud was reported by emergency management personnel over the parkway.
January 2002Thunderstorm WindNortonville-Several trees were down about a mile from Nortonville and at White Plains.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindNortonville-Several large trees were blown down along U.S. Highway 41 from Mortons Gap to the Christian County line.
May 2023HailNortonville-no account filed
June 2014Funnel CloudNortonville-no account filed
October 2010HailNortonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Little Valley0.9 miles12
Oak Hill1.4 miles12
Dillingham (historical)2.4 miles12
Homestead (historical)2.4 miles12
Pleasant Hill (historical)2.5 miles12
Daniel Boone3.0 miles12
Romney (historical)3.2 miles12
McIntosh (historical)3.4 miles12

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 NortonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2043963The 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 499617. 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.