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Farmersville, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Fredonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42445. It stands on O'Brion Branch. The Survey maps it on the Crider quadrangle.

Farmersville within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Farmersville between 1999 and 2019, burning about 77 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 ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2008Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMBELL
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRESWELL H
3 April 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCALSSEN
7 March 2016Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryR WHITE ROAD
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Farmersville: 9 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Titanium. 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
Hobby Titanium DepositTitaniumOccurrence
Bright MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Eddie Crowder MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Gilbert Williamson DepositFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Morgan Heirs Fluorspar TractFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Schwench MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Senator Main ShaftFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Senator No.1 ShaftFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Senator No.2 ShaftFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Walker Fluorspar MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmersville in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
February 2025FloodFarmersville1 killedFlash flooding on the 15th transitioned to areal flooding early on the 16th. Portions of several state highways were closed, including Highway 139 south of Farmersville, Highway 91 northwest of White Sulphur, Highway 293 southwest of Princeton, and Highway 126 from Highway 128 to the Trigg County line. The bulk of the flooding ended on the 16th, but the time was extended into the 17th for a fatality that occurred when flood waters washed a man's car off the levee and into the spillway of Lake Beshear.
July 2021Flash FloodFarmersville$30,000A woman was rescued from flash flooding near Farmersville. Deputy sheriffs responded to a county road just northwest of Farmersville, where a woman was trapped in a vehicle that had been swept off the road and wedged between two trees. The Jeep was almost completely submerged. A law officer attached a tow strap to himself and waded about 40 feet into the water, then broke a window to help the woman out of the vehicle. The deputy attached the tow strap to her, and another deputy helped pull them to safety.
May 2024HailFarmersville-Hail as large as tennis balls or baseballs was estimated to have fallen in Farmersville.
May 2016HailFarmersville-no account filed
May 2005HailFarmersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Briarfield-Union Grove (historical)1.5 miles15
Briarfield (historical)1.9 miles15
Rufus2.5 miles15
Bethany (historical)2.6 miles15
Needmore3.5 miles15
Flat Rock3.8 miles15
White Sulphur4.3 miles15
Creswell4.6 miles14

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 FarmersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65057159The 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 491995. 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.