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Maceo, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Whitesville-Philpot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42355. It lies near Wolf Hill. The Survey maps it on the Maceo quadrangle. 404 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Maceo within Daviess County

Population over time

2 figures

Maceo fell from 413 to 404 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.

YearPeople Change
2010413
2020404-9 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Maceo between 2010 and 2013, burning about 12 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
Recreation and ceremony2

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
29 March 2013Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLD CAR
11 March 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daviess County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Maceo: 4 producers. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Daviess County DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kapco DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
No. 9 DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rockport PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maceo in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMaceo$10,000A barn was destroyed. At least 30 trees were blown down in a low area along Blackford Creek. The tree blowdown covered about a half-mile stretch along the creek. Embedded within this area was evidence of a small gustnado, a brief vertically-spinning column of air that is ground-based and not rooted in the storm cloud. The wind speeds increased to as much as 100 mph within the brief spin-up, snapping trees. The damage was in the extreme northeast corner of the county along the Ohio River and the Hancock County line. The damage continued into Hancock County.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindMaceo$4,000Trees were blown down, and a mobile home was damaged.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindMaceo-The 61 MPH gust was measured by a trained spotter.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMaceo-Two trees were blown down.
June 1998HailMaceo-Hail up to the size of golf balls fell in the Maceo area.
May 2006HailMaceo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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
Yelvington1.5 miles16
Haywood Chapel (historical)3.0 miles18
Pates (historical)3.3 miles18
Chestnut Grove (historical)3.5 miles18
Spice Knob3.5 miles16
Bethlehem (historical)4.0 miles16
Thruston4.7 miles18
Mount Zion (historical)5.1 miles16

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 MaceoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955180The 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 497423. 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.