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Gilbertsville, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Calvert City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42044. It stands on Old Beaver Dam Slough. The Survey maps it on the Calvert City quadrangle. 332 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 351 feet above sea level.

Gilbertsville within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

Gilbertsville fell from 458 to 332 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
2010458
2020332-126 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 23 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

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Gilbertsville between 1998 and 2017, burning about 158 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/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2002Smoking30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMARSHALL
13 September 2008Recreation and ceremony50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 August 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCALVERT SUB STATION
27 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGARBAGE FIRE
14 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 June 2007Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gilbertsville: 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
(Facility) Calvert City SmelterChromium, ManganesePlant
Lake City MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reed MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tenn Forging Steel/ Calvert City KyIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilbertsville in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGilbertsville2 hurt, $1,000,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGilbertsville$75,000A National Weather Service damage survey determined a microburst occurred at Kentucky Dam Village, adjacent to a short tornado track. Peak winds were estimated at 110 mph. About 75 trees were snapped or uprooted.
July 2002Tornado (F0)Gilbertsville$25,000no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindGilbertsville$18,000At least three mobile homes sustained roof or siding damage. Several trees or tree limbs were down. A small storage shed was destroyed.
February 2019FloodGilbertsville$10,000The level of Kentucky Lake was raised to 367 feet, about 8 feet above the normal summer pool stage. Low-lying parks, campgrounds, and marina parking lots near the lake were flooded. Some lake access roads were underwater. The lake level was still several feet below the record set during the spring of 2011 flood.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGilbertsville$4,000Trees were down on old Highway 641 south of Benton. Trees were also down near Gilbertsville on Ridge Road and at Rocky Point.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindGilbertsville$4,000Three trees and some power lines were down.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindGilbertsville-A wind gust to 70 mph was reported by the public.
March 2019FloodGilbertsville-The level of man-made Kentucky Lake was raised to 367 feet, about 8 feet above the normal summer pool stage. Low-lying parks, campgrounds, and marina parking lots near the lake were flooded. Some lake access roads were underwater. The lake level was still several feet below the record set during the spring of 2011 flood.
August 2016Flash FloodGilbertsville-Six inches of water was reported over U.S. Highway 62 near the Purchase Parkway. Water was over a county road several miles south of Gilbertsville.
April 2003HailGilbertsville-Nickel size hail fell very near Kentucky Dam.
March 2022HailGilbertsville-no account filed
April 1998HailGilbertsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Calvert City2.7 miles23
Beechwood (historical)3.4 miles23
Lone Valley (historical)3.5 miles13
Haddox Ferry3.9 miles23
Locust Grove (historical)4.1 miles13
Pugh (historical)4.7 miles13
Cloud Crossing4.7 miles22
Angle Creek5.2 miles22

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 GilbertsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5561444The 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 492823. 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.