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Sacramento, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sacramento census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42372. The Survey maps it on the Sacramento quadrangle. 429 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 492 feet above sea level.

Sacramento within McLean County

On record in Sacramento

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Sacramento fell from 517 to 429 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
2000517
2010468-49 (-9%)
2020429-39 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sacramento between 1997 and 2010, burning about 26 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
5 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 November 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 November 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCEMETERY FIRE
5 October 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sacramento in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2009Thunderstorm WindSacramento$150,000A small storage barn was unroofed. Another larger storage structure collapsed. An airplane was flipped over at a small airstrip. Two carports were damaged.
April 2011HailSacramento$100,000Golf-ball size hail broke windshields and heavily dented vehicles. This was the same storm that produced golf-ball size hail in the Madisonville area earlier.
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Sacramento$45,000An EF-1 tornado began northwest of Bremen in Muhlenberg County and tracked northeastward into McLean County, continuing through the town of Island before lifting at Doug Hill Rd. The path consisted mostly of tree damage with minor damage to an automotive service building and powerlines in Island. Peak estimated winds with the McLean County portion, and the tornado as a whole, were 90 mph. NWS Paducah thanks NWS Louisville for their assistance surveying this tornado.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindSacramento$1,000Small to medium tree limbs were broken.
February 1993HailSacramento$500no account filed
March 2017HailSacramento-A trained spotter reported dime-size hail, with a few hailstones the size of a quarter.

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Station2.1 miles13
Worthington Chapel (historical)2.7 miles13
Stringtown (historical)3.7 miles12
Semiway4.2 miles13
Poplar Grove4.3 miles12
Buttonsberry5.6 miles13
Pack (historical)6.5 miles12
Island6.8 miles13

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 SacramentoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2185103The 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 502550. 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.