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West Louisville, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Utica-Stanley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42301. It stands on Middle Fork Knoblick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Curdsville quadrangle. 40 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

West Louisville within Daviess County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of West Louisville between 2004 and 2008, burning about 21 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 October 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 October 2008Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Louisville in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 5 funnel cloud, 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2016HailWest Louisville$250,000A severe thunderstorm produced a wide swath of very large hail across western Daviess County. Hailstones the size of hen eggs were reported at West Louisville. The hail swath extended as far north as Sorgho, where half-dollar size hail fell. On the south side of the swath, golf ball size hail was reported on Highway 81 near Panther.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWest Louisville$20,000no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWest Louisville$6,000Several trees were blown down on the west side of the county.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWest Louisville$5,000Trees were uprooted.
December 2015Funnel CloudWest Louisville-A funnel cloud was reported by a trained spotter.
March 2009Funnel CloudWest Louisville-Two rope-like funnel clouds were reported nearing the ground.
January 2008Funnel CloudWest Louisville-This funnel cloud was rotating at the time of the report.
March 2012Funnel CloudWest Louisville-no account filed
March 2012Funnel CloudWest Louisville-no account filed
April 2011HailWest Louisville-no account filed
April 2006HailWest Louisville-no account filed
June 2006HailWest Louisville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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
Saint Joseph2.0 miles13
Saint Raphael (historical)2.1 miles15
Curdsville3.6 miles13
Sorgho4.4 miles19
Panther5.1 miles15
Henry5.4 miles15
Moseleyville5.5 miles15
Snyder5.9 miles15

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 West LouisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622346The 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 506462. 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.