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.
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
Thomas Lawson Houselisted 1978- Kentucky Hydroelectric Projectlisted 2017
Population over time
2 figuresGrand 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 382 | |
| 2020 | 345 | -37 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1928 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:48000
- 1936 USGS Grand Rivers quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Grand Rivers quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Grand Rivers quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Grand Rivers quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
20 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2002 | Smoking | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area | HILLMAN |
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area | CANAL LOOP |
| 3 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area | NICKELL |
| 26 August 1999 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GARBAGE FIRE |
| 11 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 221 acres | Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area | NICKELL BRANCH |
| 14 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake City Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Reed Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Rivers | $175,000 | At least nine sailboats were blown over that were stacked in drydock. Nearby trees were down. |
| March 2018 | Flood | Grand Rivers | $10,000 | Flooding 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 2001 | Flash Flood | Grand Rivers | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Rivers | $2,000 | Large tree limbs from four to six inches in diameter were broken at Green Turtle Bay, on the west side of Lake Barkley. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Rivers | $2,000 | At a marina on Kentucky Lake, a sailboat was blown off a trailer onto its side. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Rivers | - | Power outages were reported with an estimated wind gust to 60 mph. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Rivers | - | A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 70 mph. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Grand Rivers | - | Dime-size hail was reported over Lake Barkley near Barkley Dam. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Grand 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand 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 2006 | Hail | Grand Rivers | - | Nickel size hail was reported just south of I-24. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Grand Rivers | - | no account filed |
| March 2022 | Hail | Grand Rivers | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Grand Rivers | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Rivers | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Grand Rivers | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Grand Rivers | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Rivers | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Grand Rivers | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake City | 1.8 miles | 20 | |
| Stanley Landing | 5.4 miles | 23 | |
| Iuka | 5.4 miles | 20 | |
| Cooper Landing | 6.6 miles | 23 | |
| Newbern | 7.2 miles | 23 | |
| Heater | 10.5 miles | 19 | |
| Tiline | 11.7 miles | 18 | |
| Upper Hodge Landing | 11.8 miles | 22 |
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 Rivers | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2201416 | The 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.















