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Magnolia, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Magnolia-Upton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42757. The Survey maps it on the Magnolia quadrangle. 535 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Magnolia within Larue County

Population over time

2 figures

Magnolia grew from 524 to 535 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
2010524
2020535+11 (+2%)

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

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Magnolia between 2004 and 2015, burning about 76 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/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning1

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
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLG&E
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony31 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDIE RD. FIRE
19 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larue County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magnolia in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 1997Tornado (F3)Magnolia1 hurt, $3,000,000no account filed
September 2024Thunderstorm WindMagnolia-A few trees were blown down along U.S. Route 31 just north of Magnolia.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMagnolia-An amateur radio operator reported downed trees in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMagnolia-Local law enforcement reported a tree down near Highway 31N near the Hart County line.
April 2013HailMagnolia-A spotter reported 1 inch hail around 8 miles south of Hodgenville.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindMagnolia-A barn roof was damaged on Parkers Grove Rd.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindMagnolia-A barn roof was damaged near Charlie Ragland Rd. and US 31E.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindMagnolia-Amateur radio operator relayed a spotter report of a 62 mph measured wind gust.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMagnolia-Trees were blown down.
May 2010Heavy RainMagnolia-A CoCoRaHS observer reported 5.23 inches of rain during the previous 24 hours.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMagnolia-no account filed
May 2010HailMagnolia-no account filed
April 2007Thunderstorm WindMagnolia-no account filed
April 2007HailMagnolia-no account filed
April 2007HailMagnolia-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindMagnolia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larue 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
Maxine3.1 miles11
Keith (historical)3.8 miles11
Mount Sherman4.0 miles9
South Buffalo4.7 miles8
Tanner5.0 miles15
Buffalo5.3 miles8
In The Bark of Wonderland (historical)5.3 miles11
Talley5.3 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.

Wikipedia article on MagnoliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5989904The 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 497453. 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.