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Williamstown, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Williamstown-Dry Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41097. It lies near Humes Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Williamstown quadrangle. 3,894 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Williamstown within Grant County

On record in Williamstown

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 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Williamstown fell from 3,925 to 3,894 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
20103,925
20203,894-31 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

1 photograph,

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.

Kentucky Route 36 Bridge, Spanning Lick Fork Creek near Camp Northward, Williamstown, Grant County, KY
Kentucky Route 36 Bridge, Spanning Lick Fork Creek near Camp Northward, Williamstown, Grant County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Williamstown between 1998 and 2006, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2

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
18 April 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 1998Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 January 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamstown in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 16 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$30,000A mobile home was blown off of its foundation. A few cars were blown into other cars and numerous trees were knocked down from the 500 block of North Main Street, to east of town.
May 2018Flash FloodWilliamstown$30,000Part of Helton Road was washed out. Several roads and businesses were also flooded in Williamstown.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$25,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees, some of which fell on power lines and one of which fell on a mobile home.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$15,000Several small buildings were leveled at the Cherry Hill mobile park. A band trailer was flipped onto its side.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$15,000A church lost its roof in Dry Ridge. Trees were downed from Williamstown to Dry Ridge.
August 2000Flash FloodWilliamstown$5,000Heavy rainfall caused roads to be flooded.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$4,000Numerous large trees were downed.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$3,000Several trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$3,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$3,000Several trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$3,000Trees were downed.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$3,000Trees were downed.
May 2010Flash FloodWilliamstown$2,000A bridge was reported to be underwater due to heavy rainfall.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$2,000Large tree limbs were knocked down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$2,000Large limbs were downed.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown$250A tree was knocked down in Williamstown.
April 2021FloodWilliamstown-High water was reported on Cynthiana Road.
March 2015Heavy RainWilliamstown-A few roads were closed due to high water in the Williamstown area.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown-The spotter estimated the wind gust.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown-The spotter estimated the wind gust.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWilliamstown-A trained spotter estimated the wind gust.
April 2017HailWilliamstown-no account filed
April 2015HailWilliamstown-no account filed
April 2015HailWilliamstown-no account filed
August 2015HailWilliamstown-no account filed
August 2015HailWilliamstown-no account filed
August 2015HailWilliamstown-no account filed
July 2004HailWilliamstown-no account filed
May 2003HailWilliamstown-no account filed
February 2002HailWilliamstown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Hilltop2.4 miles8
Cherry Grove2.6 miles8
Campbells Block House (historical)2.8 miles8
Dry Ridge3.4 miles8
Heekin3.9 miles8
Mason4.5 miles8
Stewartsville4.7 miles7
Reid (historical)5.5 miles8

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 WilliamstownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2306982The 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 506837. 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.