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Grand Rivers, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Smithland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42045. The Survey maps it on the Grand Rivers quadrangle. 345 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

Grand Rivers within Livingston County

On record in Grand Rivers

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Grand Rivers fell from 382 to 345 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
2010382
2020345-37 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 20 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

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Grand Rivers between 1998 and 2020, burning about 299 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaHILLMAN
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaCANAL LOOP
3 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaNICKELL
26 August 1999Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGARBAGE FIRE
11 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use221 acresLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaNICKELL BRANCH
14 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston 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 Grand Rivers: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Lake City MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reed MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Rivers in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 8 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindGrand Rivers$175,000At least nine sailboats were blown over that were stacked in drydock. Nearby trees were down.
March 2018FloodGrand Rivers$10,000Flooding along the lakeshore of Kentucky Lake inundated boat ramps, parking lots, a few access roads, and a park. Some campsites within the Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area were flooded. The lake level rose to nearly 365 feet due to restricted water releases at Kentucky Dam. The water was held back to mitigate flooding on the Ohio River. The Kentucky Lake winter pool stage is 355 feet, and the normal summer pool stage is 359 feet.
July 2001Flash FloodGrand Rivers$10,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGrand Rivers$2,000Large tree limbs from four to six inches in diameter were broken at Green Turtle Bay, on the west side of Lake Barkley.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindGrand Rivers$2,000At a marina on Kentucky Lake, a sailboat was blown off a trailer onto its side.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGrand Rivers-Power outages were reported with an estimated wind gust to 60 mph.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindGrand Rivers-A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 70 mph.
October 2014HailGrand Rivers-Dime-size hail was reported over Lake Barkley near Barkley Dam.
June 2013Heavy RainGrand Rivers-Water was over the following highways in Livingston County: Kentucky Highway 937 between the 1 and 2 mile markers, Kentucky 1433 between the 4 and 5 mile markers, and Kentucky 723 between the 5 and 6 mile markers.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGrand Rivers-At the north end of the Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area, a trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 60 mph.
April 2006HailGrand Rivers-Nickel size hail was reported just south of I-24.
July 2023HailGrand Rivers-no account filed
March 2022HailGrand Rivers-no account filed
June 2012HailGrand Rivers-no account filed
January 2008Thunderstorm WindGrand Rivers-no account filed
July 2004HailGrand Rivers-no account filed
August 2004HailGrand Rivers-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindGrand Rivers-no account filed
April 1996HailGrand Rivers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Lake City1.8 miles20
Stanley Landing5.4 miles23
Iuka5.4 miles20
Cooper Landing6.6 miles23
Newbern7.2 miles23
Heater10.5 miles19
Tiline11.7 miles18
Upper Hodge Landing11.8 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 Grand RiversAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2201416The 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 493092. 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.