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Falmouth, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Falmouth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41040. It stands on South Fork Licking River. The Survey maps it on the Falmouth quadrangle. 2,216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

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Falmouth within Pendleton County

On record in Falmouth

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 12 of 17 shown

Every listing in Pendleton County

Population over time

2 figures

Falmouth grew from 2,169 to 2,216 between 2010 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
20102,169
20202,216+47 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Falmouth between 2000 and 2003, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
12 April 2001Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 February 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 November 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pendleton County

Storms near this place

60 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Falmouth in 60 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 35 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 6 flash flood, 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Flash FloodFalmouth$25,000A portion of a road was washed out near the intersection of Main Street and Reservoir Hill Road.
June 2001Flash FloodFalmouth$25,000Heavy rainfall caused a creek to rise over the bridge on Liberty road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$20,000Numerous trees were downed across Pendleton County.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$15,000A large tree fell onto a house. Numerous trees were also downed elsewhere across the county.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
September 2009FloodFalmouth$10,000Flooding was reported with some cars stranded in the water.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$10,000Numerous trees were knocked down, especially in Falmouth. Dime size hail also fell with this storm.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$10,000Trees were knocked down across the county, especially in Falmouth. Quarter size hail also fell in the northern part of the county.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$8,000Gutters and shingles were blown off of a few houses.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$8,000A garage door was blown off a house. Trees were also downed.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$7,000A few trees and power lines were downed.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$7,000Several large trees were downed and a portion of a roof was torn off of a house.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$5,000Several trees were downed throughout Pendleton County.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$5,000Several large trees were knocked down and a power pole was snapped.
May 2010Flash FloodFalmouth$5,000Numerous roads and low level bridges were reported flooded countywide.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$5,000Numerous trees were knocked down, including one that landed on a vehicle.
September 2006Flash FloodFalmouth$5,000A few roads were flooded at a depth of up to a foot.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$5,000Trees and large limbs down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$4,000A home sustained some minor siding damage. Also, trees limbs were knocked down in Falmouth.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$4,000Several trees were knocked down on Highway 330 in a couple of places.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$3,000Large trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$3,000There were several reports of trees down around the county due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$3,000A few trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2010Flash FloodFalmouth$3,000Numerous roads were reported closed across the county due to heavy rainfall.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$3,000A few small trees were broken and downed.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$3,000Several trees were knocked down along State Route 22.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$3,000Trees were knocked down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$3,000Trees knocked down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$3,000Numerous trees downed.
May 1996HailFalmouth$3,000no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$3,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$2,000A few trees were downed.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$2,000Numerous trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2011FloodFalmouth$2,000Six county roads were closed due to high waters.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$2,000Several trees were reported down across the county.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$2,000A telephone pole was snapped in half due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2007HailFalmouth$2,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$1,000A large tree was downed.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$1,000One tree was knocked down.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$1,000A large tree was knocked down at Highway 22 and Highway 159 and was partially blocking the road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$1,000A tree was knocked down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$1,000A tree was blown down near Kathy Lane and US Route 27.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$1,000Two trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindFalmouth$250A couple of small trees were downed.
September 2018FloodFalmouth-Several roads across Pendleton County remained closed due to high water.
February 2018FloodFalmouth-Several roads were closed due to flooding.
April 2015FloodFalmouth-Wagner Ferry Road was covered with high water.
May 2010FloodFalmouth-Roads were still reported closed due to previous flash flooding.
April 2002Flash FloodFalmouth-High water flooded a bridge on John Denny Rd. A family had to be rescued when they became trapped in their vehicle. The vehicle was swept away by the flood waters.
March 2024HailFalmouth-no account filed
July 2012HailFalmouth-no account filed
March 2012HailFalmouth-no account filed
May 2011HailFalmouth-no account filed
June 2010HailFalmouth-no account filed
May 2003HailFalmouth-no account filed
May 2003HailFalmouth-no account filed
October 2001HailFalmouth-no account filed
June 1996HailFalmouth-no account filed
March 1995HailFalmouth-no account filed
June 1995HailFalmouth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pendleton County

Newspapers printed here

9,720 digitised pages

6 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,210 issues, 9,720 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Falmouth Outlook1907 to Current
The Pendleton Democrat187? to 1???
The Falmouth Democrat18?? to 1???
The Falmouth Pendletonian1881 to 188?
The Guide188? to 18??
The Pendletonian189? to 19??

What the paper printed

14,243 words

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 7 issues spread across its run from 1881 to 1907, 14,243 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

IssuePaper Length
1907-06-21The Falmouth Outlook3,985 words
1907-08-09The Falmouth Outlook2,035 words
1907-10-04The Falmouth Outlook2,470 words
1907-11-22The Falmouth Outlook2,652 words
1895-08-30The Pendleton Democrat2,258 words
1881-03-10The Falmouth Pendletonian228 words
1881-07-07The Falmouth Pendletonian615 words

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
Hayes2.7 miles10
Four Oaks3.0 miles10
Catawba3.0 miles10
Concord3.5 miles10
Menzie4.4 miles10
Bachelors Rest5.5 miles6
Greenwood6.0 miles11
Boston6.1 miles10

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 FalmouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2627136The 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 491967. 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.