BlockWilsonville, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the West Spencer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40023. The Survey maps it on the Fisherville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1929 USGS Taylorsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Fisherville quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Fisherville quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Fisherville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wilsonville between 1999 and 2010, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 October 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MASTERS LANE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilsonville in 7 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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 2019 | Flood | Wilsonville | 1 killed, $100,000 | A vehicle attempted to navigate a flooded low water crossing that was flowing with water at the time. A family of four was in the vehicle. The mother and two children were rescued. The father's body was found several hours later downstream. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilsonville | - | Multiple trees and large limbs were blown down in the Elk Creek area. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Wilsonville | - | There was a water rescue for a stranded vehicle on Hochstrasser Lane. |
| October 2025 | Flash Flood | Wilsonville | - | There was water and debris over Plum Ridge Road. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Wilsonville | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported on Battery Lane. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilsonville | - | A tree fell down. |
| February 2018 | Flood | Wilsonville | - | High water over road and bridge at Old Heady and Veech Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elk Creek | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Normandy | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Yoder | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Rivals | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Crenshaw | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Waterford | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Taylorsville | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Riverhill Farm (historical) | 8.0 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 506918. 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.