Perryville, Kentucky
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Perryville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40468. It stands on Hopes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Perryville quadrangle. 782 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.
On record in Perryville
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 8 records
Perryville BattlefieldNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
H. P. Bottom Houselisted 1976
Crawford Houselisted 1976- Confederate Monument in Perryvillelisted 1997
- Hankla-Walker Houselisted 1998
- Johnson-Brinton Houselisted 1973
- William Thompson Houselisted 1983
- Union Monument in Perryvillelisted 1997
Population over time
2 figuresPerryville grew from 751 to 782 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 751 | |
| 2020 | 782 | +31 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1905 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Perryville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Perryville between 1999 and 2013, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 January 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SCRUBGRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perryville in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 7 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | $25,000 | Local media reported several trees and power lines down across the county. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Perryville | $25,000 | There were numerous reports of flooded and closed roads countywide. Five homes were evacuated due to rising water in a subdivision of Perryville. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Perryville | $20,000 | Many roads in Perryville are impassable. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | There were trees down on the 4500 block of Webster Road. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Perryville | - | Water was over the roadway at Harrodsburg Road and Claunch Road. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A tree was down on North Bragg Street at First Street. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A tree fell down and was covering the road. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A tree was uprooted and covering US 68. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Perryville | - | Smith Street was closed and impassable between first and third streets due to high water. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Perryville | - | Mitchellsburg Road was impassable due to flooding. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | Several trees were reported down in Perryville. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Perryville | - | The Boyle County Emergency Manager reported streets flooded along the Chaplin River in Perryville. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Perryville | - | Chaplin River was out of its banks and flowing over roadways in Perryville. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A law enforcement official trees down across the area. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A tree was downed across Battlefield Road. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | Several large trees were blown down on Battlefield Rd. in Perryville Battlefield State Park. Some of the trees were up to 22 inches in diameter. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A trained spotter reported wind gusts estimated at 60 mph as well as pea sized hail. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perryville | - | Several trees down. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Perryville | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Perryville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleettown (historical) | 1.6 miles | 11 | |
| Mitchellsburg | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Brumfield | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Needmore | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Craintown | 4.0 miles | 6 | |
| Atoka | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Parksville | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Wilsonville | 5.5 miles | 10 |
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 Perryville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q589888 | 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 500436. 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.





