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South Carrollton, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Central City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42374. It sits by Fentress Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Central City West quadrangle. 141 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

South Carrollton within Muhlenberg County

Population over time

2 figures

South Carrollton fell from 184 to 141 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
2010184
2020141-43 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of South Carrollton between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,762 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
13 September 2002Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2002Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2010Debris and open burning13 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMAGAZINE
25 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance138 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 July 2000Arson/incendiarism120 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2007Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Carrollton in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016FloodSouth Carrollton-Water was over a small road off Kentucky Highway 81.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSouth Carrollton-Large tree limbs were across a road, resulting in a vehicle accident.

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Spring Ridge (historical)2.0 miles15
Moorman3.2 miles13
Central City3.2 miles15
Cherry Hill (historical)3.3 miles16
Sunnyside (historical)3.8 miles15
Dovey (historical)4.0 miles16
Gishton4.1 miles16
Bremen4.4 miles16

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 South CarrolltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3181090The 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 503897. 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.