BlockPowersville, Kentucky
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41004. The Survey maps it on the Brooksville quadrangle. It stands 968 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Brooksville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Powersville between 1999 and 2004, burning about 17 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 | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powersville in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Powersville | $100,000 | The first evidence of tornado damage was near Powersville, along the intersection of Powersville Willow and Brooksville Powersville Roads. At this location, several trees and large branches were downed. The tornado continued northeast from here, causing sporadic tree damage along its path. ||More significant damage occurred just to the northwest of downtown Brooksville, along West Miami Street. Numerous trees were downed in this area and several homes had mainly minor roof and siding damage. One home at this location did have a large portion of its roof removed and this is where the strongest winds were estimated.||The tornado was captured on security video taken from both the Bracken County Middle School and the Bracken County High School. In the video taken from the high school, the tornado is clearly visible as it moved through the field south of Cooper Lane toward West Miami Street. ||Beyond West Miami Street, the tornado moved northeast and continued to cause occasional minor tree and structural damage. The last evidence of tornadic damage was along Brooksville Chatham Road, where a barn was completely destroyed and some large sycamore trees were uprooted. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powersville | $30,000 | Widespread minor tree and roof damage occurred. Based on damage patterns obtained during the survey, this damage was caused by straight line thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 miles per hour. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powersville | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were downed on Powersville-Harrison County Road. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powersville | $4,000 | Several trees were knocked down on Powersville-Willow Road. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powersville | $3,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powersville | $1,000 | A tree was downed over State Route 165. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willow | 2.2 miles | 6 | |
| Petra | 2.5 miles | 7 | |
| Brooksville | 3.0 miles | 8 | |
| Oakland (historical) | 3.4 miles | 6 | |
| Asbury (historical) | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Belmont (historical) | 3.6 miles | 6 | |
| Berlin | 3.7 miles | 6 | |
| Parina (historical) | 3.9 miles | 8 |
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 Powersville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7236857 | 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 501261. 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.