Summersville, Kentucky
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Summersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42743. The Survey maps it on the Summersville quadrangle. 551 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.
On record in Summersville
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 3 records
Elmore-Carter Houselisted 1984- John C. Allen Houselisted 1985
- Daniel Motley Williams Houselisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresSummersville fell from 568 to 551 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 | 568 | |
| 2020 | 551 | -17 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Summersville quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Summersville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
26 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Summersville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 March 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MARSHALL RIDGE ROAD |
| 8 March 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 47 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BRAMBLE HU |
| 5 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CAMPBELLSVILLE HWY |
| 31 March 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 March 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summersville in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summersville | $1,200,000 | Eight houses were destroyed. Two houses had major damage. Eight other homes had minor damage. Thirteen barns were damaged or destroyed. Six businesses had damage. An unoccupied mobile home was flipped over a house and into a tree. Numerous trees and power lines were down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summersville | - | Trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds near Summersville. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summersville | - | A barn roof was damaged by strong winds on Marshall Ridge Road. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summersville | - | Trees were reported down between Summersville and Greensburg. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summersville | - | The public reported a measured gust of 70 mph. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summersville | - | A law enforcement official reported that a tree fell on Highway 61 in Summersville. Other trees were down in Greensburg from the severe thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summersville | - | Two trees were blown down in Summersville. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summersville | - | Trees were downed. |
| September 2006 | Flash Flood | Summersville | - | Streams were out of their banks and some roadways were flooded. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Summersville | - | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Hail | Summersville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gabe | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Bloyds Crossing | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Coakley | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Allendale | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Greensburg | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Lobb | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Bluff Boom | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Webbs | 5.5 miles | 10 |
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 Summersville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7637678 | 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 504784. 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.




