Sadieville, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sadieville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40370. It stands on Spoon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sadieville quadrangle. 320 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.
On record in Sadieville
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 2 records
- Joseph Fields Burgess Houselisted 1984
- Sadieville Historic Districtlisted 2013
Population over time
4 figuresSadieville grew from 170 to 320 between 1890 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1890 | 170 | |
| 2000 | 263 | |
| 2010 | 303 | +40 (+15%) |
| 2020 | 320 | +17 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1939 USGS Sadieville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Sadieville quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Sadieville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000
What the histories say of this town
3,277 words1 chapter about Sadieville from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| The B.O. Gaines History of Scott County | The B.O. Gaines History of Scott County (1905) | 3,277 words |
Fires near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sadieville between 2006 and 2010, burning about 25 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WOLF BRANCH INTERSTATE FIRE |
| 8 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 October 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | THE LATIN CONSPIRACY FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sadieville in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Flash Flood | Sadieville | 1 killed, $20,000 | On February 17, a man was found deceased in his truck off of Davis Road, near Sadieville. It is believed by the coroner's office that the man's truck was washed off the road and into a ravine by floodwater late on February 15, but the exact time is unknown. Value and damage to vehicle is unknown. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Sadieville | $500,000 | 30 to 40 homes were damaged by flood waters, one home had 4 feet of water. People were trapped in vehicles by rising water. |
| February 2021 | Flood | Sadieville | - | Luke Road at Eagle Creek was impassable due to high water. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Sadieville | - | Flooding was reported on Eagle Bend Drive. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sadieville | - | Trees were reported down due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sadieville | - | A Scott County official reported trees down due to severe thunderstorm winds over roads in Sadieville. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sadieville | - | A public report was received that several trees were down in the area as a result of severe thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Sadieville | - | The local media reported that two boys were rescued after creek waters rose quickly on the Little Indiana Branch in the town of Sadieville. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sadieville | - | A tree was blown down. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sadieville | - | Large limbs and other debris were blocking roads. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Sadieville | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sadieville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Sadieville | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Hail | Sadieville | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sadieville | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Sadieville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Double Culvert | 2.5 miles | 10 | |
| Davis | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Porter | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Stonewall | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| Turkey Foot | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Biddle | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Mallard Point | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Muddy Ford | 5.8 miles | 10 |
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 Sadieville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2151356 | 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 502554. 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.





