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Farmington, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Farmington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42040. The Survey maps it on the Farmington quadrangle. 234 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Farmington within Graves County

Population over time

2 figures

Farmington fell from 245 to 234 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
2010245
2020234-11 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Farmington between 1999 and 2010, burning about 101 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/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOLO ROADSIDE
4 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 February 2004Missing 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Farmington: 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Ball 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
Mayfield Kentucky Ball ClayBall ClayProducerKaolinite, Quartz
Backusburg ClayClayProspect
Kirk Ridge Clay ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Graves County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmington in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 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
February 2018FloodFarmington$250,000Roads were covered by water in and around the Farmington community.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindFarmington$20,000A small wooden barn was destroyed near the Calloway County line, and numerous large branches were broken. This damage was associated with the storm that produced the EF-2 tornado near Cuba.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindFarmington$20,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindFarmington$5,000Wind speed measured on KY-80 near the Graves/Calloway County line. Power flashes were visible.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Farmington$4,000Several trees and tree limbs were blown down. Swaths of corn and wheat were blown down in farm fields. The tornado began along Kentucky Highway 80 near Farmington, then moved northeast across Highway 564. Peak winds were estimated by a damage survey team near 75 mph. The average path width was about 75 yards.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindFarmington$1,000Large tree branches were broken.
March 2017HailFarmington-A photograph of a hailstone indicated it was still the size of a golf ball after two hours of melting.
July 1997FloodFarmington-Thunderstorms produced very heavy rain. Radar estimated up to 3 inches of rain. Water was over roads.
March 2018HailFarmington-no account filed
July 1997HailFarmington-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
Browns Grove3.8 miles10
Cooksville4.0 miles9
Sedalia4.6 miles12
Vealsburg4.7 miles9
Golo5.1 miles11
Tri City5.5 miles9
South Highland5.8 miles11
Payne6.6 miles11

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 FarmingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5435866The 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 491996. 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.