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Grahamville, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Grahamville-Heath census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42086. The Survey maps it on the Heath quadrangle.

Grahamville within McCracken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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

28 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Grahamville between 1999 and 2016, burning about 360 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/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2

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
29 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesVEACH
2 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2010Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCracken 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 Grahamville: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Massac County PitStone, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Federal Sand & Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Metropolis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McCracken County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grahamville in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindGrahamville$8,000Several trees were blown down around the county, blocking roads. U.S. Highway 62 was blocked west of Paducah, another road near Hardmoney was blocked, and a few trees blocked secondary roads in the northwest part of the county. A National Weather Service employee estimated winds gusted to 60 mph.
March 2020FloodGrahamville$4,000Moderate flooding occurred on the Ohio River. At the river gage at Paducah, the river crested at 44.91 feet on the 31st. Flood stage is 39 feet. Riverside parks and campgrounds were inundated. Extensive flooding of low-lying woods and fields occurred. Some rural county roads were closed. Very few if any structures were affected. The flooding continued into April.
May 2025HailGrahamville-Hail measured to golf ball size fell in Grahamville, while additional one to one and a half inch (estimated) hail in Grahamville was reported via mPING.
July 2016Funnel CloudGrahamville-A funnel cloud was reported by a trained spotter moving over the Ohio River toward Metropolis, Illinois.
April 2006HailGrahamville-Quarter size hail dented vehicles. The hail covered the ground at Grahamville for several hours.
May 2003HailGrahamville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCracken 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
Heath1.5 miles16
Chiles1.7 miles22
Palestine (historical)1.8 miles22
Maxon Crossing2.3 miles16
West Paducah2.5 miles22
Bayou Church (historical)2.9 miles16
Maxon2.9 miles22
Future City3.3 miles16

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 GrahamvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28185086The 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 493086. 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.