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Golo, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Farmington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42066. The Survey maps it on the Kirksey quadrangle.

Golo within Graves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Golo between 1999 and 2017, burning about 154 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/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
24 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2014Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPRATHER RD.

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 Golo: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Ray Branch Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Backusburg ClayClayProspect
Kirk Ridge Clay ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Graves County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Golo in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
January 1999Thunderstorm WindGolo$150,000East of Mayfield, thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn, blew a nearby mobile home off its foundation, and blew windows out of houses. Numerous trees and power lines were down. A tool shed was destroyed. The mobile home was moved about 4 feet off its foundation, and parts of the nearby barn that was destroyed were strewn across the highway and nearby fields. A local road was closed until an outbuilding could be removed from the road.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindGolo$15,000A carport was blown about 200 yards. A 29-foot travel trailer was flipped over several times and landed about 30 yards away. Several large trees were blown down on adjacent farms.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGolo$8,000Numerous medium to large tree limbs and a couple of trees were blown down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGolo-Small tree limbs were broken at several locations northwest of Golo.
June 2015HailGolo-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
Hicksville4.0 miles13
Farmington5.1 miles12
Twin Oaks (historical)6.3 miles13
Clear Springs6.5 miles13
Mayfield7.5 miles11
Browns Grove7.9 miles10
Westplains8.0 miles13
South Highland8.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 492948. 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.