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.
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
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows Halllisted 2025
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Kentucky Route 36 Bridge, Spanning Lick Fork Creek near Camp Northward, Williamstownfederal building survey, 6 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresWilliamstown 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,925 | |
| 2020 | 3,894 | -31 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1950 USGS Williamstown quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Williamstown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
6 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 March 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 January 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $30,000 | A 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 2018 | Flash Flood | Williamstown | $30,000 | Part of Helton Road was washed out. Several roads and businesses were also flooded in Williamstown. |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees, some of which fell on power lines and one of which fell on a mobile home. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $15,000 | Several small buildings were leveled at the Cherry Hill mobile park. A band trailer was flipped onto its side. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $15,000 | A church lost its roof in Dry Ridge. Trees were downed from Williamstown to Dry Ridge. |
| August 2000 | Flash Flood | Williamstown | $5,000 | Heavy rainfall caused roads to be flooded. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $4,000 | Numerous large trees were downed. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $3,000 | Several trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $3,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $3,000 | Several trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $3,000 | Trees were downed. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $3,000 | Trees were downed. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Williamstown | $2,000 | A bridge was reported to be underwater due to heavy rainfall. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $2,000 | Large tree limbs were knocked down. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $2,000 | Large limbs were downed. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | $250 | A tree was knocked down in Williamstown. |
| April 2021 | Flood | Williamstown | - | High water was reported on Cynthiana Road. |
| March 2015 | Heavy Rain | Williamstown | - | A few roads were closed due to high water in the Williamstown area. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | - | The spotter estimated the wind gust. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | - | The spotter estimated the wind gust. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown | - | A trained spotter estimated the wind gust. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Williamstown | - | no account filed |
| February 2002 | Hail | Williamstown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilltop | 2.4 miles | 8 | |
| Cherry Grove | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Campbells Block House (historical) | 2.8 miles | 8 | |
| Dry Ridge | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Heekin | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Mason | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Stewartsville | 4.7 miles | 7 | |
| Reid (historical) | 5.5 miles | 8 |
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 Williamstown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2306982 | 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 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.




