Slaughters, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sebree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42456. The Survey maps it on the Slaughters quadrangle. 190 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresSlaughters fell from 238 to 190 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 238 | |
| 2010 | 216 | -22 (-9%) |
| 2020 | 190 | -26 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1907 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:48000
- 1909 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Slaughters quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Slaughtersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Slaughters between 1998 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | 3 MAN FIRE |
| 5 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JONES ROAD |
| 29 March 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LINK ROAD |
| 29 March 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 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 Slaughters: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewel City Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slaughters in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2019: 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2006 | Flash Flood | Slaughters | 1 killed, $20,000 | A 46-year-old female drowned while attempting to cross floodwaters on Kentucky 138. The victim was swept away after she got out of her car, which was partially moved off the road. Her body was found three-tenths of a mile from her car. |
| March 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Slaughters | $1,000 | The tornado was captured on video near its beginning. A television antenna tower near a home was knocked over. Otherwise, damage was limited to disturbed corn stubble in agricultural fields along U.S. Highway 41 north of Slaughters. Peak winds were estimated near 70 mph. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slaughters | $1,000 | Large tree limbs were blown down on the southeast side of Slaughters off U.S. Highway 41. |
| July 2016 | Flood | Slaughters | - | Widespread minor street flooding occurred in the community. |
| December 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Slaughters | - | A trained spotter reported a rain-wrapped funnel cloud. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Slaughters | - | Golf ball size hail was reported just north of Slaughters. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Slaughters | - | no account filed |
| December 2015 | Hail | Slaughters | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Slaughters | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elmwood | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Breton | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Onton | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Gatesville | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Ortiz | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Vanderburg | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Steamport Landing | 8.0 miles | 14 | |
| Sebree | 8.3 miles | 15 |
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 Slaughters | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1833605 | 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 503668. 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.








