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.
Population over time
2 figuresSpottsville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 325 | |
| 2020 | 274 | -51 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1905 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Spottsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Spottsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
3 photographs, 1916Taken 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.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
8 since 1999Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DUMP |
| 28 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 May 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.1 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | REED FIRE |
| 21 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HATCHETT MILL ROAD |
| 15 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HWY 1078 |
| 31 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HALLOWEEN FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spottsville | $50,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Spottsville | $45,000 | A 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spottsville | $20,000 | A 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spottsville | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were down in eastern Henderson County. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spottsville | $10,000 | Four 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spottsville | $5,000 | A utility company reported two trees down. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Spottsville | - | Dime and quarter size hail was reported falling in the community. |
| June 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Spottsville | - | Trained spotters reported a funnel cloud near Spottsville and Beals. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spottsville | - | Wind gusts were estimated from 60 to 65 MPH by a trained spotter. |
| August 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Spottsville | - | A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud with rotation visible. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Spottsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Spottsville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beals | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Baskett | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Reed | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Bluff City | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Zion | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Scuffletown | 5.0 miles | 17 | |
| Carlinburg | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| Hebbardsville | 6.0 miles | 14 |
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 Spottsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7580149 | 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 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.







