Plano, Kentucky
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42104. The Survey maps it on the Bowling Green South quadrangle. 1,223 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresPlano grew from 1,117 to 1,223 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 | 1,117 | |
| 2020 | 1,223 | +106 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1921 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1923 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
8 photographs, 1916Taken 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.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Plano between 1999 and 2016, burning about 8 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 | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 March 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | COSBY FIRE |
| 26 October 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 October 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DEWEY LAKE RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plano in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plano | - | A tree was blown down near the intersection of Matlock Road and Rich Pond Road. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plano | - | Trees were blown down, blocking roadways in Plano. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Plano | - | Water was flowing over the roadways in Plano. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plano | - | There were multiple trees and large limbs down near the 5100 block of Plano Road. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plano | - | Multiple areas around Plano suffered tree damage from strong thunderstorm winds. At least one power line was damaged by falling tree limbs. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plano | - | A tree was downed on Plano Road. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plano | - | The public reported multiple trees down, some of which blocked the road. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plano | - | Local media reported several trees and large limbs down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Plano | - | Nickel size hail was reported. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Plano | - | Drakes Creek at Alvaton crested around 25.8 feet at 3 AM CST on April 28. Flood stage at Alvaton is 22 feet. Trails in Phil Moore Park are flooded at this level. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plano | - | Gusty thunderstorm winds removed a portion of the roof of a large barn. Several trees were damaged nearby. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plano | - | Trees were downed. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Plano | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Hail | Plano | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plano | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Trinity (historical) | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Old Union (historical) | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| White Kitchen (historical) | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Three Springs | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Drake | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Alvaton | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Boyce | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| White Chapel (historical) | 4.0 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 Plano | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6077684 | 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 500793. 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.








