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Fancy Farm, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fancy Farm census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42039. The Survey maps it on the Fancy Farm quadrangle. 403 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 430 feet above sea level.

Fancy Farm within Graves County

On record in Fancy Farm

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Fancy Farm fell from 458 to 403 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
2010458
2020403-55 (-12%)

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

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Fancy Farm between 1998 and 2018, burning about 298 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/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
24 September 1999Smoking10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance227 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOT ASH
14 May 1998Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fancy Farm: 1 occurrence. None of them 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
S.S. Campbell Farm ProspectClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Graves County

Storms near this place

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fancy Farm in 20 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flood, 1 flash 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
May 2009Thunderstorm WindFancy Farm$50,000A microburst along the leading edge of a bow echo produced substantial damage at a farm. The metal top was blown off a cinder block silo. There was siding damage at a residence. A large section of a chick house lost its roof. The path length was about 500 yards, and the width was only 50 yards.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindFancy Farm$20,000Trees and power lines were down along Kentucky Highways 80 and 1686. Trees were covering the whole road.
August 2023LightningFancy Farm$10,000A house caught fire due to a lightning strike.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFancy Farm$10,000Trees were down. Some trees were blocking roads.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFancy Farm$8,000A National Weather Service storm survey found scattered tree damage in and near Fancy Farm. Several trees had large broken limbs or were uprooted. One house sustained gutter and roof damage from falling limbs. Estimated peak winds were 80 mph.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFancy Farm$8,000A few trees and power lines were blown down in the Fancy Farm area near Highway 121.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFancy Farm$7,000There were several trees down across the northern half of the county, including the towns of Hickory, Fancy Farm, Melber, and Folsomdale.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindFancy Farm$7,000A single-wide mobile home on Highway 80 was pushed back about five feet. None of the occupants were injured. The back porch was destroyed.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFancy Farm$6,000Trees were down. Corn was flattened.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindFancy Farm$2,000Numerous trees were downed, including seven or eight that fell across roads. Two houses were struck by falling trees, but only minor damage occurred to their roofs and gutters.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFancy Farm$1,000A large tree was down.
March 2025HailFancy Farm-Hail up to the size of quarters fell just south of Fancy Farm.
January 2020FloodFancy Farm-Roads that are typically flooded after heavy rainfall were closed. This includes portions of Highway 1820 near the Carlisle County line.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFancy Farm-Numerous trees were blown down in northwest and north central Graves County. A large tree was snapped a few miles north of Fancy Farm. Roof damage was reported in Boaz.
March 2008FloodFancy Farm-Water was over many roads, mostly secondary roads. One vehicle was heavily damaged after encountering a washout. Several creeks were out of their banks.
June 2007Flash FloodFancy Farm-Considerable street flooding occurred in northern sections of the county, where the heaviest rain fell. Only some minor street flooding was reported at Mayfield.
December 2007FloodFancy Farm-Three miles south of downtown Mayfield, creeks were out of their banks and over roads. Creeks were out of their banks along Highway 121 in central and southern Graves County.
May 2012HailFancy Farm-no account filed
April 2007HailFancy Farm-no account filed
April 2006HailFancy Farm-no account filed

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
Wheel3.9 miles9
Pottsville5.1 miles12
Dublin5.1 miles10
Lowes6.0 miles7
Baltimore7.8 miles10
Hickory7.8 miles12
Kansas7.8 miles12
West Viola7.8 miles12

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 Fancy FarmAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5433691The 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 491969. 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.