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Mayo, 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 40330. The Survey maps it on the Cornishville quadrangle. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Mayo within Mercer County

On record in Mayo

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayo in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 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 2017Thunderstorm WindMayo$30,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees along and south of State Road 1160 (Talmage Mayo Rd) west of U.S. Highway 127. A large barn was blown down near the intersection of these two roads.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMayo-Trees and power lines were downed.

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
Terrapin1.1 miles11
Vanarsdell2.8 miles11
Kirkwood3.1 miles11
Dugansville3.2 miles11
Talmage3.3 miles14
Duncan3.8 miles11
McAfee4.1 miles14
Bohon4.1 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 MayoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6797474The 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 507313. 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.