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.
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
Willisburg Central Bank and Post Officelisted 1989- Long Lick Creek Bridgelisted 1989
- Tatham Springslisted 1989
- Willisburg Historic Districtlisted 2014
Population over time
3 figuresWillisburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 304 | |
| 2010 | 282 | -22 (-7%) |
| 2020 | 300 | +18 (+6%) |
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.
- 1953 USGS Brush Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Brush Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
24 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Willisburg | 1 killed, 1 hurt, $30,000 | A 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 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Willisburg | 4 hurt, $70,000 | The tornado destroyed two mobile homes and a tobacco barn. It also did roof, siding, and chimney damage to several homes, and damaged vehicles. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | $75,000 | A 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | $15,000 | The southwest corner of a large, well-constructed barn was blown in, with several roofing panels removed. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | Power lines were down. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | A tree blew down in Willisburg. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Willisburg | - | A state highway department official stated that roads that don't normally flood where flooding across the northern part of the county. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Willisburg | - | A road was impassable due to flash flooding. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Willisburg | - | Water up to 10 feet deep was flowing over Lawrenceburg Road. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | Trained spotters reported trees down in the area. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | The Washington County emergency manager reported trees down in the Willisburg area. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Willisburg | - | The public reported nickel sized hail fell near Willisburg. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | The Washington County road crew reported trees downed near State Highways 142 and 43. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | A trained spotter relayed a HAM radio report that several trees were downed in the Willisburg Area. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | Several trees down across the county. |
| February 2024 | Hail | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisburg | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Willisburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulliam | 2.8 miles | 8 | |
| Brush Grove | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Hickory Grove (historical) | 3.7 miles | 7 | |
| Tatham Springs | 3.9 miles | 7 | |
| Polin | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Sharpsville | 4.4 miles | 7 | |
| Litsey | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Hardesty | 4.6 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 Willisburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2479335 | 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 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.




