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.
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
McMullin-Warren Houselisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresSebree 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,603 | |
| 2020 | 1,574 | -29 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1906 USGS Sebree quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Sebree quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Sebree quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Sebree quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2007Regional 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 ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BROKEN CHAIN FIRE |
| 29 March 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LINK ROAD |
| 21 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 October 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | X FIRE |
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Sebree Smelter | Aluminum, Contained or Metal | Plant |
Storms near this place
18 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sebree | $40,000 | Sebree 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 2016 | Flash Flood | Sebree | $40,000 | Several homes were flooded in Sebree. Emergency management personnel reported high water on streets. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sebree | $6,000 | Several trees and power lines were down. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sebree | $5,000 | Numerous trees and limbs were down. Highway maintenance workers spent several hours clearing them from roadways. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sebree | $3,000 | Numerous tree limbs were down in the far eastern part of the county around Sebree. Some limbs were also down at Slaughters. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Sebree | - | Golf ball size hail fell along Highway 41 near the feed mill north of Sebree. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Sebree | - | The county emergency management office reported flash flooding of roads around the county. |
| July 2015 | Tornado (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 2007 | Hail | Sebree | - | 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sebree | - | A barn was pushed off its foundation. The structure was left intact. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sebree | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Sebree | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Sebree | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Sebree | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sebree | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Sebree | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Hail | Sebree | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Sebree | - | 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.
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 Sebree | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2562005 | 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 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.








