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Kirkwood, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Salvisa-McAfee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40372. The Survey maps it on the McBrayer quadrangle.

Kirkwood within Mercer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkwood in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2002: 2 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
March 1997Thunderstorm WindKirkwood$20,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindKirkwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Lucto (historical)1.5 miles11
Lucton (historical)2.3 miles11
Terrapin2.4 miles11
Hickory Grove (historical)2.5 miles11
Bondville2.7 miles12
Vanarsdell2.8 miles11
Mayo3.1 miles11
Salvisa3.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508395. 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.

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.