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Radcliff, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Radcliff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40160. The Survey maps it on the Vine Grove quadrangle. 23,042 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Radcliff within Hardin County

Population over time

2 figures

Radcliff grew from 21,688 to 23,042 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.

YearPeople Change
201021,688
202023,042+1,354 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Radcliff between 2004 and 2012, 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/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySUNSHINE LANE
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 November 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySTRANEY FI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Radcliff: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Flaherty-Otter Creek Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Fort Knox QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Radcliff in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 46 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995Thunderstorm WindRadcliff46 hurt, $5,000,000Department of Emergency Service reports three mobile home parks received substantial damage. Forty-six minor injuries were also reported throughout the county. In all, 421 homes were damaged and 100 destroyed across the county. Damage was estimated at $10.9 million across the county including $6 million in Vine Grove and $3.5 million in Radcliff. The damage was attributed to downburst winds up to 120 mph with embedded weak F1 tornadoes not out of the question.
May 1995Tornado (F2)Radcliff$500,000Tornado sighted at Fort Knox. Several buildings damaged.
April 2002Tornado (F1)Radcliff$150,000Two homes had their roofs torn off. There was minor structural damage to 24 other homes. Numerous trees were uprooted. Tornado intensity was estimated at F1 with spots of F2 damage.
January 2002LightningRadcliff$100,000Lightning struck a home along Wintergreen Road in Radcliff. The home was totally destroyed by fire. There were no injuries.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindRadcliff$50,000A roof was blown off a dental office building. The roof landed on a car in an adjacent parking lot. Trees were uprooted, and power lines were downed.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindRadcliff-Several trees were toppled along West Lincoln Trail in Radcliffe.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindRadcliff-A spotter reported a measured wind gust of 59 mph on SR 313 at mile marker 14.
March 2011HailRadcliff-Pea to quarter sized hail was reported.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindRadcliff-Two trees were downed.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindRadcliff-Power lines were down along Highway 313 near Interstate 65.
April 1999Flash FloodRadcliff-Three to four inches of rain fell across northern Hardin county. Many reports of flooding and road closures due to flooding.
May 1995HailRadcliff-Hardin County Department of Emergency Service reports three-quarters inch hail.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRadcliff-no account filed
August 2005HailRadcliff-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRadcliff-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindRadcliff-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindRadcliff-no account filed
November 2000Thunderstorm WindRadcliff-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRadcliff-no account filed
March 1997HailRadcliff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Vine Grove Junction1.0 miles15
Red Hill1.4 miles15
Dietz Acres1.7 miles15
Rogersville1.7 miles15
Vine Grove2.7 miles15
Prichard Place3.3 miles14
Gaffey Heights3.3 miles14
Long View4.0 miles15

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 RadcliffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1003654The 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 501516. 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.

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.