Jamestown, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jamestown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42629. It stands on Big Lily Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jamestown quadrangle. 1,867 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.
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On record in Jamestown
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 1 record
Russell Lodge No. 284listed 1994
Population over time
2 figuresJamestown grew from 1,794 to 1,867 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 | 1,794 | |
| 2020 | 1,867 | +73 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Jamestown between 1998 and 2020, burning about 261 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 | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | TWIN CREEK |
| 18 March 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 215 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CHARLES GIBBS |
| 4 February 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 November 1998 | Smoking | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GINGER FIRE |
| 10 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HWY 619 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jamestown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcclure Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
38 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jamestown in 38 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 26 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Jamestown | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | $250,000 | Boat storage structures were damaged near Jamestown. Outbuildings and barns were damaged. A tree was blown on to a mobile home. Numerous trees were down along Highway 379. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | $20,000 | State officials reported numerous trees down along with a few power lines. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | $10,000 | The Jamestown local fire department reported a tree blown on a house trailer. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | $5,000 | Trees were downed. There was minor wind damage to mobile homes. |
| June 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Jamestown | - | A tornado touched down just east of US 127, north of Woolen Mill Road, in an area of mostly open fields with patches of trees along fence rows. Damage could be seen in the tree tops lowering until reaching the ground. The tornado moved eastward towards |West Cumberland Avenue in western Jamestown. While plowing through clusters of trees, tree damage was highly focused with many mature healthy trees being snapped. As the tornado approached a set of apartment buildings on the 1100 block of West Cumberland Avenue, views from an aerial drone showed heavy tree damage with trees falling in several directions. A roof from one of the buildings blew off to a southwest direction. A large window from across the street at the auto museum got sucked out and ended up in the roadway. To the north, large sections of the roof at Jamestown Auto Sales got peeled back from the northwest to the southeast. ||The main tornado track continued east while a small suction vortex fed into the main rotation near Telephone Drive. Along Telephone Drive, a large tree was uprooted and fell to the southeast while two well built buildings had their gable porch roofs blown to the north. One remained attached to the roof while the other was blown to the northeast over the building, coming to rest behind C&W Auto Parts which had its own |southeast facing window blown out. All three of these buildings had mud splattered on their southeast facing exterior wall. ||Farther east in the main tornado track, the tornado damaged a large area of the Carpet Center's roof. Just to the south, a single family home had half of its roof blown off. To the north and east of the Carpet Center, the strongest damage was done at a residence. A garage made out of cinder blocks was completely leveled by 110 mph winds on two sides while the other two sides saw nothing remain above the windows. Every tree in the area was severely damaged. Multiple trees fell on the house and the |owners vehicles. A limb of a tree punched through the wall and was in the house. Multiple large trees continued to get uprooted as the tornado traveled eastward before lifting near Brown Road. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | A very pronounced bowing segment cut southeast across Russell County during the early morning hours on Monday. This area of surging wind caused widespread tree damage in the Jamestown area.||The survey team focused on areas with the heaviest damage which were all south of Jamestown. The first area of considerable damage was at Jamestown Boat Storage on the west side of State Road 92. One of their large multi bay buildings had 5 southwest |facing oversized garage doors damaged. This allowed wind to get into the structure causing parts of the roof to collapse and other parts to blow off. The southeast wall sheet metal was also blown out. Half of the roof was completely gone over 9 bays, and |on the northeast side of the building the whole roof was down over 5 bays. Another storage building, to the southeast, on the same property had a few damaged garage doors and a small area of roof damage above the doors. ||Less than a mile farther south on State Road 92, Stripers Boat Storage had 4 northwest facing garage doors blown in and damaged. Wind that made it into the building blew out 2 southeast facing doors. On the southwest side of the building, there were a couple snapped and uprooted mature trees facing to the southeast. Across the road on Lily Creek Ramp Road, Cumberland Boat Storage had at least 9 bays of their western most building completely destroyed. Wind blew in the doors on the northwest side of the building before blowing off the roof structure and walls. Nothing was left standing on the southwest side of the building. ||A little farther south, a concentrated area of tree damage stretched along a southwest to northeast axis which was along area ridge tops. Along these ridges many roads including Oak Road, Carriage Lane, Pumpkin Creek Road, Harbor Springs and a few |others there were hundreds of large mature trees that were snapped and uprooted, many of which brought down area power lines and poles. Many trees fell on houses causing major damage. A few houses on Pumpkin Creek Road were completely destroyed due to multiple trees falling on them. All the downed trees in the area |fell to the southeast. No definitive convergence was observed.||The last of the damage was observed just under a mile farther south on Harbor Springs Road. Large uprooted trees were a common sight. This brought down power lines and poles, but the damage wasn't nearly as concentrated as that along Pumpkin Creek Road. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | A tree blew down. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Two trees were reported down. |
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Jamestown | - | A stated official reported that two inches of water was over Highway 619. The water was from Lily Creek and continued to rise during the time reported. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Local law enforcement reported trees down on Green Acres Road. |
| February 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Local media reported numerous power outages near Jamestown. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Jamestown law enforcement relayed several reports of trees down across the city. |
| November 2011 | Flood | Jamestown | - | Local law enforcement reported that two roads were closed in Jamestown. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Several maple trees were blown down and blocking roads. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Media reported roof damage to a few buildings in Jamestown. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Jamestown | - | Quarter sized hail fell for four minutes ending at 1222 AM EDT. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Numerous trees and power lines were downed across the county. About a third of the county had lost power. |
| February 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | A storm spotter measured a 68 MPH wind gust. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Trees were downed. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Trees were downed. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Trees were downed. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Several trees were downed in Jamestown. Power was out across portions of the city. |
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Trees down |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Numerous trees down...Power out at WJRS radio station |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | Several trees and power lines down. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jamestown | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Flash Flood | Jamestown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karlus | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Middletown | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| Esto | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Rose Crossroads | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Sewellton | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Freedom | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Russell Springs | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Ono | 5.1 miles | 14 |
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 Jamestown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1976579 | 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 495165. 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.




