Zion, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Spottsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42420. The Survey maps it on the Spottsville quadrangle.

Zion within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1905 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1951 USGS Spottsville quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Spottsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Zion between 1999 and 2017, burning about 52 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
28 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 March 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HATCHETT MILL ROAD
20 February 2011	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DAYTONA FIRE
31 October 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HALLOWEEN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zion in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 flood. 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
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Zion	$50,000	Near Zion, a microburst containing estimated winds near 85 mph occurred along Highway 351. One pole barn was destroyed, and one garage was damaged. The house sustained damage to porch columns, and two windows were broken. Several large trees were downed or uprooted. The damage area was about one-half mile long and one-quarter mile wide. At Spottsville, a trained spotter estimated wind gusts were near 65 mph. Emergency managers reported many trees and limbs down at unspecified locations across the county, causing roadway blockages and some spotty power outages.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Zion	$2,000	Large tree limbs were down in Zion and Smith Mills.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Zion	$1,000	Gust measured at Kentucky Mesonet site GRHM five miles east of Henderson.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Zion	$1,000	The wind gust was recorded by a Kentucky mesonet site.
February 2025	Flood	Zion	-	Multiple periods of heavy rainfall (3-4) led to flooding of numerous highways and county roads. Housebridge Road was closed at Beaverdam Creek. Highway 1557 was closed at Camp Creek. Highway 351 was closed at Lick Creek. Highway 812 was closed southeast of Henderson.
September 2020	Flood	Zion	-	A few secondary roads were flooded and closed, including Highway 812 southeast of Henderson, one end of Highway 2247 near Zion, and Highway 1557 southwest of Corydon.
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Zion	-	Two trained spotters in the same vicinity reported wind gusts to 60 mph. One of the gusts was measured, and the other was estimated.
February 2012	Hail	Zion	-	no account filed
March 2012	Funnel Cloud	Zion	-	no account filed
March 2012	Funnel Cloud	Zion	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Zion	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Zion	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Zion	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Zion	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Zion	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Graham Hill	2.5 miles	18
Baskett	4.0 miles	14
Spottsville	4.7 miles	14
Anthoston	4.8 miles	18
Weaverton	5.3 miles	18
Rankin	5.4 miles	18
Beals	5.6 miles	14
Bluff City	5.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507274. 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.