Prestonville, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Prestonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41008. It stands on Kentucky River. The Survey maps it on the Carrollton quadrangle. 171 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 463 feet above sea level.
On record in Prestonville
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 1 record
- Stone House on Kentucky Riverlisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresPrestonville grew from 161 to 171 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 | 161 | |
| 2020 | 171 | +10 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1943 USGS Brooksburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Carrollton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Carrollton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Prestonville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prestonville in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestonville | $20,000 | A large tree fell onto a car and a house. |
| March 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Prestonville | $20,000 | The tornado first developed in Jefferson County, Indiana, at 1258EST, on the north side of Hanover. The tornado moved east across the Ohio River into Trimble County, Kentucky, and then into Carroll County, Kentucky, at 1308EST. The tornado moved across the Ohio River again and back into Jefferson County, Indiana, and then Switzerland County, Indiana, before crossing the Ohio River one more time and moving back into Carroll County, Kentucky, at 1322EST, just east of Carrollton on US 42. The tornado was very narrow at this point and produced some sporadic tree damage before ending at 1324EST. Wind speeds were estimated to be around 75 mph, EF-0. The Kentucky Mesonet site 2E of Carrollton measured 68 mph as the weakening tornado lifted. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestonville | $20,000 | A few power poles were downed in the 1200 block of Highland Avenue. |
| September 2022 | Flash Flood | Prestonville | $20,000 | High water was flowing across 10th Street. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Prestonville | $10,000 | Water was reported rushing over roads and entering a gas station building. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestonville | $3,000 | Several large limbs and power lines were downed. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestonville | $3,000 | Trees downed. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestonville | $2,000 | A few trees were downed in the Carrollton area. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestonville | $2,000 | Trees were reported down on State Route 36. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestonville | $2,000 | Several trees were downed and a church steeple was blown over. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestonville | $1,000 | A large tree was downed, blocking a road. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestonville | $1,000 | A tree was downed near the intersection of Sycamore Street and 7th Street. |
| April 2014 | Flash Flood | Prestonville | $1,000 | In addition to an earlier mudslide that destroyed a home along highway 36, another mudslide due to heavy rain closed parts of highway 36. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestonville | $250 | Several large tree limbs were downed. |
| May 2017 | Flash Flood | Prestonville | - | Water was reported flowing over roads and surrounding some homes in the Carrollton area. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prestonville | - | A large branch was downed across Mound Hill Round near State Route 55. Several large limbs were also downed throughout the Carrollton area. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Prestonville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrollton | 0.6 miles | 12 | |
| Kings Ridge | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Mound Hill (historical) | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Indian Hills | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Notch Lick (historical) | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Little Kentucky (historical) | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Wrights Ridge (historical) | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Locust | 4.1 miles | 11 |
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 Prestonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2386955 | 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 501308. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.






