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Sebree, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sebree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42455. It lies near Steamport Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sebree quadrangle. 1,574 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

Sebree within Webster County

On record in Sebree

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Sebree fell from 1,603 to 1,574 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
20101,603
20201,574-29 (-2%)

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

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Sebree between 2007 and 2019, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBROKEN CHAIN FIRE
29 March 2019Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLINK ROAD
21 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 October 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryX FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sebree: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal. 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
(Facility) Sebree SmelterAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant

Every working recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sebree in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
October 2019Thunderstorm WindSebree$40,000Sebree received several limbs and trees down from the storm. Some limbs landed on vehicles, and shingle damage was reported throughout town. A corn maze that was being operated in the Sebree-Slaughters area was knocked down.
July 2016Flash FloodSebree$40,000Several homes were flooded in Sebree. Emergency management personnel reported high water on streets.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSebree$6,000Several trees and power lines were down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSebree$5,000Numerous trees and limbs were down. Highway maintenance workers spent several hours clearing them from roadways.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSebree$3,000Numerous tree limbs were down in the far eastern part of the county around Sebree. Some limbs were also down at Slaughters.
March 2025HailSebree-Golf ball size hail fell along Highway 41 near the feed mill north of Sebree.
April 2016Flash FloodSebree-The county emergency management office reported flash flooding of roads around the county.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Sebree-A slow-moving funnel cloud was observed for about five minutes over open country. A trained spotter reported the funnel touched down as a tornado for a few minutes and stirred up some debris. No damage site was located by the spotter or reported by other sources. This tornado was associated with an isolated light rain shower. This type of tornado is commonly called a landspout. Landspouts occur when extremely buoyant air is lifted and rotates near the base of a rain shower of thunderstorm. Most landspouts do little damage.
April 2007HailSebree-Large hail occurred across many parts of Webster County. The largest reported hailstones were 1.5 inches in diameter 3 miles north of Dixon.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindSebree-A barn was pushed off its foundation. The structure was left intact.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindSebree-A few trees were blown down.
March 2017HailSebree-no account filed
October 2007HailSebree-no account filed
June 2006HailSebree-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSebree-no account filed
June 2004HailSebree-no account filed
November 2002HailSebree-no account filed
April 2002HailSebree-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Steamport Landing2.2 miles14
Pratt2.2 miles15
Breton3.9 miles15
Ortiz5.5 miles15
Elmwood5.9 miles14
Onton6.0 miles14
Poole6.5 miles14
Wanamaker6.8 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 SebreeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2562005The 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 503138. 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.