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Willisburg, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Willisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40078. It stands on Little Rock Run. The Survey maps it on the Brush Grove quadrangle. 300 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Willisburg within Washington County

On record in Willisburg

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 4 records

Population over time

3 figures

Willisburg fell from 304 to 300 between 2000 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
2000304
2010282-22 (-7%)
2020300+18 (+6%)

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.

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willisburg in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 5 injuries. 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
June 2020Flash FloodWillisburg1 killed, 1 hurt, $30,000A driver on Lawrenceburg Road noticed a white Ford Explorer that had washed off the road in flood waters. He then noticed an elderly man and woman were still in the vehicle with water up to their necks. Rescuers broke out windows on the vehicle and pulled the couple out just as it filled completely with flood water. Both were unconscious when they were pulled out; the woman was resuscitated at the scene, but her husband never regained consciousness and died later that afternoon after they were both transported to a local hospital.
April 2000Tornado (F1)Willisburg4 hurt, $70,000The tornado destroyed two mobile homes and a tobacco barn. It also did roof, siding, and chimney damage to several homes, and damaged vehicles.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindWillisburg$75,000A one-half mile long area of straight-line wind damage was surveyed southwest of Willisburg. The most significant damage was to a sturdy Amish school house that lost part of its roof, and to a nearby home that had lost the vertical supports to its front porch when the roof briefly lifted. Several trees were also downed and minor roof damage occurred to two outbuildings.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindWillisburg$15,000The southwest corner of a large, well-constructed barn was blown in, with several roofing panels removed.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindWillisburg$1,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWillisburg-Power lines were down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWillisburg-A tree blew down in Willisburg.
June 2020Flash FloodWillisburg-A state highway department official stated that roads that don't normally flood where flooding across the northern part of the county.
June 2020Flash FloodWillisburg-A road was impassable due to flash flooding.
June 2020Flash FloodWillisburg-Water up to 10 feet deep was flowing over Lawrenceburg Road.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindWillisburg-Trained spotters reported trees down in the area.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWillisburg-The Washington County emergency manager reported trees down in the Willisburg area.
April 2015HailWillisburg-The public reported nickel sized hail fell near Willisburg.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWillisburg-The Washington County road crew reported trees downed near State Highways 142 and 43.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWillisburg-A trained spotter relayed a HAM radio report that several trees were downed in the Willisburg Area.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWillisburg-Several trees down across the county.
February 2024HailWillisburg-no account filed
March 2012HailWillisburg-no account filed
May 2003HailWillisburg-no account filed
March 2002HailWillisburg-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWillisburg-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWillisburg-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWillisburg-no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F0)Willisburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Pulliam2.8 miles8
Brush Grove3.7 miles8
Hickory Grove (historical)3.7 miles7
Tatham Springs3.9 miles7
Polin4.4 miles8
Sharpsville4.4 miles7
Litsey4.5 miles8
Hardesty4.6 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 WillisburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2479335The 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 506850. 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.

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.