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Garrison, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Garrison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41141. It lies near Buris Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Garrison quadrangle. 731 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Garrison within Lewis County

Population over time

2 figures

Garrison fell from 866 to 731 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
2010866
2020731-135 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

58 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Garrison between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,435 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 July 1999Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined214 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOWER TWIN BRANCH
5 April 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 1997Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Garrison: 1 past producer. 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
Horner MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garrison in 14 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 flash flood, 2 hail. 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGarrison$5,000Several trees were downed.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindGarrison$5,000Large limbs were blown down in town.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGarrison$4,000Several trees were downed in the Garrison area.
June 2018FloodGarrison$4,000Tile was washed out near a house by rushing water.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGarrison$4,000Several trees were blown down along route 8 between Garrison and Firebrick.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGarrison$3,000Multiple power poles were knocked down along State Route 8 near Garrison.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGarrison$1,000A tree was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2011Heavy RainGarrison$1,000One road was closed and multiple other roads had high water on them due to heavy rainfall.
May 2001Flash FloodGarrison$1,000High water on several roads in Garrison.
May 2009HailGarrison$1,000no account filed
May 2024FloodGarrison-High water was reported on Kinney Road and on State Route 8 in the Garrison area.
July 2021Flash FloodGarrison-Water was flowing across several roads in the Garrison area.
June 2018FloodGarrison-Water was reported running over Kinney Road.
May 2011HailGarrison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Upper Bruce (historical)2.2 miles14
Quincy2.6 miles14
Rexton3.7 miles11
Buena Vista4.6 miles14
Tannery4.8 miles14
Saint Paul6.4 miles14
Vanceburg7.7 miles14
Rugless8.3 miles8

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 GarrisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5403658The 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 492728. 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.