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.
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
- St. Jerome's Catholic Church Complexlisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresFancy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 458 | |
| 2020 | 403 | -55 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1952 USGS Fancy Farm quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Fancy Farm quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1977 USGS Fancy Farm quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1999 | Smoking | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 31 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 227 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 August 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HOT ASH |
| 14 May 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.S. Campbell Farm Prospect | Clay | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
20 since 2005Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy Farm | $50,000 | A 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy Farm | $20,000 | Trees and power lines were down along Kentucky Highways 80 and 1686. Trees were covering the whole road. |
| August 2023 | Lightning | Fancy Farm | $10,000 | A house caught fire due to a lightning strike. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy Farm | $10,000 | Trees were down. Some trees were blocking roads. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy Farm | $8,000 | A 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy Farm | $8,000 | A few trees and power lines were blown down in the Fancy Farm area near Highway 121. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy Farm | $7,000 | There were several trees down across the northern half of the county, including the towns of Hickory, Fancy Farm, Melber, and Folsomdale. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy Farm | $7,000 | A 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy Farm | $6,000 | Trees were down. Corn was flattened. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy Farm | $2,000 | Numerous 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy Farm | $1,000 | A large tree was down. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Fancy Farm | - | Hail up to the size of quarters fell just south of Fancy Farm. |
| January 2020 | Flood | Fancy Farm | - | Roads that are typically flooded after heavy rainfall were closed. This includes portions of Highway 1820 near the Carlisle County line. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fancy 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 2008 | Flood | Fancy 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Fancy 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 2007 | Flood | Fancy 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 2012 | Hail | Fancy Farm | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Fancy Farm | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Fancy Farm | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheel | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Pottsville | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Dublin | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Lowes | 6.0 miles | 7 | |
| Baltimore | 7.8 miles | 10 | |
| Hickory | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| Kansas | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| West Viola | 7.8 miles | 12 |
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 Farm | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5433691 | The 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.




