Payneville, Kentucky
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Battletown-Payneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40157. The Survey maps it on the Irvington quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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.
- 1928 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Irvington quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Irvington quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Payneville between 1998 and 2012, burning about 72 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 | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SIROCCO RD |
| 6 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DEAD HORSE HOLLOW FIRE |
| 2 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 31 March 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Payneville in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Payneville | - | A new porch was thrown into a tree, and a chicken coop was thrown about 100 yards. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Payneville | - | A tree was blown down near the intersection of Kentucky Route 376 and New State Road. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Payneville | - | Trees were blown down along Kentucky Route 376. |
| December 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Payneville | - | Trees were reported down on Fackler Road near Payneville, Kentucky. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Payneville | - | A NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-0 tornado with wind speeds estimated to be 65-80 mph touched down in Breckinridge county. The tornado lifted in several locations along the 11 mi. path, with the greatest width of 50 yards. The tornado continued into Meade county where it last lifted 4 miles west of Brandenburg. The worst damage with this tornado occurred at a house in an elevated location along Sirocco Road in Meade County. At that location a carport that was attached to the house blew across the field behind it. Trees were snapped or uprooted, a barn door was blown in, and shingles were blown off of the roof of another nearby house. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Payneville | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. |
| September 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Payneville | - | Trees were downed. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Payneville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Payneville | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Payneville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Payneville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Payneville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sirocco | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Arnold (historical) | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Liberty | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Preston (historical) | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Lodale | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Andyville | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Cold Springs | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Midway | 4.7 miles | 14 |
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 Payneville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7156860 | 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 500299. 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.









