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Spottsville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Spottsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42458. The Survey maps it on the Spottsville quadrangle. 274 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Spottsville within Henderson County

Population over time

2 figures

Spottsville fell from 325 to 274 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
2010325
2020274-51 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Photographs

3 photographs, 1916

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., when work is over. School opened 2 weeks ago, and the boys expect to be out several weeks more. 10-year old boy, Edward Goldsberry carries and drops the sticks. 11-year old Aubrey Hazeland is piling the tobacco (in front). 13-year old Dolph Hazeland piling (behind Aubrey), and 14-year old Willie Goldsberry is spiking the tobacco. Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky
Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., when work is over. School opened 2 weeks ago, and the boys expect to be out several weeks more. 10-year old boy, Edward Goldsberry carries and drops the sticks. 11-year old Aubrey Hazeland is piling the tobacco (in front). 13-year old Dolph Hazeland piling (behind Aubrey), and 14-year old Willie Goldsberry is spiking the tobacco. Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Barn of Daniel Barrett and group shown in photos 4464-5-6.  Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky
Barn of Daniel Barrett and group shown in photos 4464-5-6. Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Barn of Daniel Barrett and group shown in photos 4464-5-6. Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky
Barn of Daniel Barrett and group shown in photos 4464-5-6. Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Spottsville between 1999 and 2017, burning about 107 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDUMP
28 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony3.1 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREED FIRE
21 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHATCHETT MILL ROAD
15 February 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1078
31 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHALLOWEEN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spottsville in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 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
September 1993Thunderstorm WindSpottsville$50,000Thunderstorm wind blew numerous large trees onto a house and a truck in Robards. A tobacco barn filled with tobacco was destroyed 1 mile northeast of Robards. The same storm blew several large trees down, including Kentucky's largest sugar maple, in Spottsville where one home lost half of its roof.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Spottsville$45,000A double wide mobile home was shoved 10 feet off its base. A 12-by-16 foot wooden shed was destroyed, killing 26 baby chicks. Several trees on the property were blown down. Peak winds were estimated around 110 MPH.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindSpottsville$20,000A house suffered major roof shingle loss on Highway 351 just east of Zion. Further down the road on route 351, a large barn lost part of its roof.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSpottsville$10,000Several trees and power lines were down in eastern Henderson County.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSpottsville$10,000Four power poles were down on U.S. Highway 60 on the west side of Reed. Highway 60 was closed for several hours. A tree was down a couple miles southwest of Spottsville.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindSpottsville$5,000A utility company reported two trees down.
April 2013HailSpottsville-Dime and quarter size hail was reported falling in the community.
June 2013Funnel CloudSpottsville-Trained spotters reported a funnel cloud near Spottsville and Beals.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSpottsville-Wind gusts were estimated from 60 to 65 MPH by a trained spotter.
August 2006Funnel CloudSpottsville-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud with rotation visible.
May 2014HailSpottsville-no account filed
May 2003HailSpottsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Beals0.9 miles14
Baskett2.7 miles14
Reed3.2 miles14
Bluff City4.3 miles14
Zion4.7 miles14
Scuffletown5.0 miles17
Carlinburg5.1 miles17
Hebbardsville6.0 miles14

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 SpottsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7580149The 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 504091. 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.