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Russell Springs, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Russell Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42642. It lies near Beckham Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Russell Springs quadrangle. 2,715 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Russell Springs within Russell County

Population over time

3 figures

Russell Springs grew from 2,399 to 2,715 between 2000 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
20002,399
20102,441+42 (+2%)
20202,715+274 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Russell Springs between 1998 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 1999Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 February 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 February 2014Recreation and ceremony13 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySANO PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Russell Springs in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 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 WindRussell Springs2 hurt, $50,000Winds blew a tractor-semitrailer over, injuring two people. Four barns were destroyed and two mobile homes damaged.
May 1995HailRussell Springs-Golf ball-size hail reported.

Every storm recorded in Russell 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
Royville1.2 miles9
Humble2.5 miles9
Middletown2.5 miles9
Jericho3.0 miles9
Sano3.7 miles9
Esto3.8 miles9
Webbs Cross Roads4.1 miles9
Horntown4.5 miles9

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 Russell SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2784505The 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 502532. 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.