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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1908 USGS Calhoun quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Curdsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2004Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 October 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 October 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Hail | West Louisville | $250,000 | A 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Louisville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Louisville | $6,000 | Several trees were blown down on the west side of the county. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Louisville | $5,000 | Trees were uprooted. |
| December 2015 | Funnel Cloud | West Louisville | - | A funnel cloud was reported by a trained spotter. |
| March 2009 | Funnel Cloud | West Louisville | - | Two rope-like funnel clouds were reported nearing the ground. |
| January 2008 | Funnel Cloud | West Louisville | - | This funnel cloud was rotating at the time of the report. |
| March 2012 | Funnel Cloud | West Louisville | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Funnel Cloud | West Louisville | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | West Louisville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | West Louisville | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | West Louisville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Joseph | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Raphael (historical) | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Curdsville | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Sorgho | 4.4 miles | 19 | |
| Panther | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Henry | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Moseleyville | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Snyder | 5.9 miles | 15 |
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 Louisville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q30622346 | 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 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.






