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Boydsville, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sedalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42079. The Survey maps it on the Lynnville quadrangle.

Boydsville within Graves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

60 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Boydsville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 330 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use22 acresTennessee Division of ForestryTOSH
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTennessee Division of ForestrySIXTY ONE
16 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTennessee Division of ForestryEIGHTY
4 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresTennessee Division of ForestryHOSTETLER
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTennessee Division of ForestryWEAKLEY COUNTY TENNESSEE 89 10028
20 June 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graves County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Boydsville: 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Burton ShaleClayProspect
Farmington Clay MineClayProducer
Mcswain ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Graves County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boydsville in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2009Tornado (EF0)Boydsville$1,000A brief EF0 tornado touchdown occurred about 2.5 miles south of Bell City, near the intersection of Highway 97 and Highway 1270. The actual touchdown was 0.2 miles east of Highway 97 on Highway 1270. Minor tree damage occurred. Peak winds were estimated near 75 mph.

Every storm recorded in Graves 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
Fairbanks2.0 miles9
Bell City2.7 miles9
Lynnville4.7 miles9
Tri City6.1 miles9
Vealsburg7.0 miles9
Buena Vista (historical)7.4 miles9
Cooksville7.6 miles9
Cuba8.0 miles9

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 BoydsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19600583The 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 507566. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.