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Ferguson, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Somerset census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42533. It stands on Allen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Somerset quadrangle. 886 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Ferguson within Pulaski County

Population over time

3 figures

Ferguson grew from 881 to 886 between 2000 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
2000881
2010924+43 (+5%)
2020886-38 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Ferguson between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,850 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
16 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 June 2012Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRADIO TOWE
29 June 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRADIO TOWE
17 June 2007Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryLISA
27 April 2001Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ferguson: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fishing Creek ShaleClayProspect
Somerset QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferguson in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 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
March 2013Tornado (EF1)Ferguson$100,000A storm damage survey team consisting of officials from the National Weather Service in Jackson, KY and the Ferguson Fire Department confirmed damage from an EF-1 tornado in the Ferguson community. Touchdown occurred at a warehouse building on Waddle Street. The tornado traveled approximately 700 yards, destroying the warehouse, damaging the roofs of several homes and downing multiple trees along it's path. The warehouse building destroyed in this tornado received roof damage from the January 30th tornado as the two tornado tracks overlapped for a short distance.
January 2013Tornado (EF0)Ferguson$5,000A storm damage survey team from the National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY confirmed an EF-0 tornado in Pulaski County around 630 am EST this morning, January 30th. Touchdown occurred in the Ferguson Community near the end of the runway of the Lake Cumberland Regional Airport. The tornado traveled a half mile through a residential area crossing Murphy Avenue near the Gover Lane intersection. Some roof and siding damage was noted to structures along the path. Several trees were also downed along the path and one tree fell across and destroyed a shed. This is the first documented tornado to occur during the month of January in the National Weather Service Jackson, KY forecast area.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFerguson$5,000A resident of Ferguson sustained damage to her house and had trees blown down on her property due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFerguson-The county Emergency Manager reported a couple of damaged trees just southeast of Somerset, one uprooted and another broken midway up its trunk. A couple of trampolines were also blown around on Regal Drive.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFerguson-Trees were blown down near the intersection of Gover Lane and Murphy Avenue.
March 2012Funnel CloudFerguson-A funnel cloud was spotted in Ferguson.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindFerguson-A trained spotter reported wind gusts estimated at 60-70 mph 1/2 mile north of Somerset.
June 2009Funnel CloudFerguson-A funnel cloud was spotted between 522 and 537 am in Ferguson.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindFerguson-Strong winds blew several trees down. One tree was reported down in downtown Somerset and one across Ringo Road.
June 2009HailFerguson-no account filed
June 2009HailFerguson-no account filed
June 2004HailFerguson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Prater (historical)1.0 miles11
Elihu1.5 miles11
Bourbon1.6 miles11
Crockett (historical)1.7 miles10
Somerset1.8 miles11
Durham (historical)1.8 miles11
Oak Hill2.5 miles10
Alcalde2.7 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 FergusonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3172552The 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 492026. 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.