Sanders, Kentucky
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41083. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sanders quadrangle. 197 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 486 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSanders fell from 238 to 197 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 | 238 | |
| 2020 | 197 | -41 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1951 USGS Sanders quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Sanders quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sanders in 2004, burning about 2 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/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 October 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Sanders: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Barium-Barite, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waits Mine | Lead, Barium-Barite, Zinc | Past Producer | 1904, 1940 |
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanders in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 4 hail, 4 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sanders | $10,000 | One power pole and numerous power lines were down due to the damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| February 2021 | Flood | Sanders | $6,000 | Three vehicles required water rescues on State Highway 36 along Eagle Creek. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sanders | $3,000 | Several trees were knocked down. |
| July 2013 | Flood | Sanders | $1,000 | Route 36 was closed due to high water from Eagle Creek from rainfall that fell earlier on July 6. |
| March 2021 | Flood | Sanders | - | High water was reported on roads in the Sanders area. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Sanders | - | The hail fell on Interstate 71 near the Carroll and Gallatin County line. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Sanders | - | High water was reported over State Route 36 at Mc Daniel Street. |
| April 1998 | Flash Flood | Sanders | - | Heavy rainfall caused Eagle Creek to overflow its banks. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Sanders | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sanders | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Sanders | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carson | 1.9 miles | 8 | |
| Rockville (historical) | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Easterday | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Worthville | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Ghent | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Langstaff | 8.9 miles | 11 | |
| Pleasant Union (historical) | 9.7 miles | 8 | |
| English | 9.8 miles | 12 |
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 Sanders | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3180186 | 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 502945. 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.




