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Holifield, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wingo-Water Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42066. The Survey maps it on the Dublin quadrangle.

Holifield within Graves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Holifield between 1997 and 2020, burning about 843 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/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning8
Railroad operations and maintenance5

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 1999Railroad operations and maintenance500 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRAY RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graves County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holifield in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 2 flash flood. 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
February 2025Flash FloodHolifield-Flood water from Cane Creek flooded a garage and surrounded a house on Tater Road northwest of Wingo.
May 2016Flash FloodHolifield-Highway 58 was closed along the Hickman County line due to rising flood waters. Water was completely across a four-lane stretch of U.S. Highway 45 just north of the Mayfield city limits.

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
Baltimore2.0 miles10
Wingo3.0 miles11
Roper3.4 miles10
Pryorsburg4.3 miles11
Dublin4.4 miles10
Stubblefield6.0 miles11
Water Valley6.7 miles10
Payne7.3 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122540689The 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 494391. 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.

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.