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Lynnville, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sedalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42079. The Survey maps it on the Lynnville quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Lynnville within Graves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Lynnville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTennessee Division of ForestryWEAKLEY COUNTY TENNESSEE 89 10028
6 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 April 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2002Recreation and ceremony47 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2015Recreation and ceremony1.8 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAIRBANKS ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graves County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lynnville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Farmington Clay MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Graves County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lynnville in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindLynnville1 hurt, $10,000A large tree limb punched through a truck windshield and injured the driver. The driver was extricated from the truck by rescue workers and transported to a hospital.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLynnville$10,000Numerous trees were blown down, knocking out power and phone service to the community.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLynnville$2,000A trained spotter estimated a wind gust near 65 mph. A tree branch was down on a power line.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindLynnville-Tree damage was reported.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLynnville-A trained spotter estimated winds gusted to at least 65 mph.
April 2015HailLynnville-no account filed
April 2011HailLynnville-no account filed
June 2006HailLynnville-no account filed

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
Fairbanks2.8 miles9
Tri City2.8 miles9
Vealsburg3.3 miles9
Cuba3.6 miles9
Bell City4.0 miles9
Cooksville4.3 miles9
Boydsville4.7 miles9
Sedalia5.9 miles12

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 LynnvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6709471The 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 497387. 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.