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Maysville, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Maysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41056. It stands on Goose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maysville East quadrangle. 8,873 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

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Maysville within Mason County

On record in Maysville

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 12 of 24 shown

Every listing in Mason County

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Maysville fell from 9,011 to 8,873 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
20109,011
20208,873-138 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

Photographs

8 of 39 photographs shown, 2020

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The Underground Railroad Museum in the Ohio River port city of Maysville, Kentucky
The Underground Railroad Museum in the Ohio River port city of Maysville, Kentucky
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Sculptor Sam McKinney's statue of Tecumseh in Maysville, Kentucky, an Ohio River port city that, although home to fewer than 10,000 people, was several times a boomtown, shipping coal from mines to the south, so much tobacco that it ranked second in the world in looseleaf variety shipments, and wrought iron that decorated fashionable balconies as far away as New Orleans, Louisiana's, French Quarter
Sculptor Sam McKinney's statue of Tecumseh in Maysville, Kentucky, an Ohio River port city that, although home to fewer than 10,000 people, was several times a boomtown, shipping coal from mines to the south, so much tobacco that it ranked second in the world in looseleaf variety shipments, and wrought iron that decorated fashionable balconies as far away as New Orleans, Louisiana's, French Quarter
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Street scene in Maysville, Kentucky, an Ohio River port city that, although home to fewer than 10,000 people, was several times a boomtown, shipping coal from mines to the south, so much tobacco that it ranked second in the world in looseleaf variety shipments, and wrought iron that decorated fashionable balconies as far away as New Orleans, Louisiana's, French Quarter
Street scene in Maysville, Kentucky, an Ohio River port city that, although home to fewer than 10,000 people, was several times a boomtown, shipping coal from mines to the south, so much tobacco that it ranked second in the world in looseleaf variety shipments, and wrought iron that decorated fashionable balconies as far away as New Orleans, Louisiana's, French Quarter
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
The house known as "Phillips' Folly" in Maysville, Kentucky, an Ohio River port city that, although home to fewer than 10,000 people, was several times a boomtown, shipping coal, tobacco, and wrought iron that decorated fashionable balconies as far away as New Orleans, Louisiana's, French Quarter
The house known as "Phillips' Folly" in Maysville, Kentucky, an Ohio River port city that, although home to fewer than 10,000 people, was several times a boomtown, shipping coal, tobacco, and wrought iron that decorated fashionable balconies as far away as New Orleans, Louisiana's, French Quarter
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Sam McKinney's 2018 sculptures of a buffalo and her calf in Maysville, Kentucky's, Limestone Park
Sam McKinney's 2018 sculptures of a buffalo and her calf in Maysville, Kentucky's, Limestone Park
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Often (mistakenly) called the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Old Washington, once a stand-alone Kentucky settlement now (as of 2020) incorporated into the Ohio River city of Maysville, this was the house of a slaveholder whom the abolitionist visited in the early 19th Century
Often (mistakenly) called the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Old Washington, once a stand-alone Kentucky settlement now (as of 2020) incorporated into the Ohio River city of Maysville, this was the house of a slaveholder whom the abolitionist visited in the early 19th Century
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
A mural depicting a hometime legend, famed pop singer Rosemary Clooney, one of 10 panels painted by artist Robert Dalford and his team on panels along the Ohio River floodwall in Maysville, Kentucky
A mural depicting a hometime legend, famed pop singer Rosemary Clooney, one of 10 panels painted by artist Robert Dalford and his team on panels along the Ohio River floodwall in Maysville, Kentucky
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Two old cabins, including one (left) turned into a U.S. post office, dating to 1794 in Old Washington, once a stand-alone Kentucky settlement now (as of 2020) incorporated into the Ohio River city of Maysville
Two old cabins, including one (left) turned into a U.S. post office, dating to 1794 in Old Washington, once a stand-alone Kentucky settlement now (as of 2020) incorporated into the Ohio River city of Maysville
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Mason County

Fires near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Maysville between 1999 and 2014, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 August 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Maysville: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cabin Creek MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Maysville KilnCalciumProducer
Buckeye PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Franfort Mtls. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maysville Dredging, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

47 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maysville in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 29 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 5 flash flood, 3 flood. 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
July 2017Flash FloodMaysville$750,000Five to seven inches of rain produced widespread flash flooding across Mason County. Several homes were damaged by rushing water, including one home that was washed off its foundation along State Route 11 east of Maysville. About 60 vehicles were washed away from an auto sales lot in Maysville. Numerous roads across the area also sustained damaged due to the rushing water.
May 2003Tornado (F3)Maysville$500,000The tornado touched down to the southeast of Maysville, continuing east-southeast into Lewis County. The greatest damage occurred in the Heron Hill area in western Lewis County. Seventeen people were injured in Lewis County. 21 homes were destroyed, 10 homes sustained major damage and 17 homes received minor damage. Numerous barns, buildings and garages were also damaged or destroyed. The tornado appeared to skip across parts of Mason and Lewis Counties. Tornado damage ended four miles to the southeast of Vanceburg.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMaysville$50,000The damage surveyed consisted of a large limb on a car and a large limb on a house. There was also major damage to one building where the high winds produced a large hold in the side of the building. In another area of town, a tree was blown down onto a car and a power pole snapped in half and fell onto a car. Several large limbs were blown down on the railroad tracks. In addition, the weight room at the Mason County School football field was damaged. All the damage surveyed in these locations indicated straight line wind damage.
September 2009Flash FloodMaysville$20,000One car was washed away and four cars were washed out of a parking lot nearby due to heavy rainfall. People were also trapped on the 2nd floor of an apartment building.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindMaysville$20,000A microburst tore a metal roof off a barn and uprooted several trees.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindMaysville$20,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindMaysville$20,000no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMaysville$15,000A large tree was knocked down through a house.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindMaysville$15,000A roof was ripped off of an apartment building due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2010Flash FloodMaysville$15,000Numerous roads were closed due to high water. Some families were evacuated from their homes in eastern portions of the county.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMaysville$10,000An 84 Lumber building along US Routes 62 and 68 had aluminum siding blown out in two spots.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMaysville$8,000Numerous trees were knocked down and siding was off of a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds. A roof was also taken off a barn due to the winds.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMaysville$8,000A barn had its roof peeled off. Trees were also downed in the area.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMaysville$6,000Trees and power lines were downed across the county.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMaysville$5,000Several trees down.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindMaysville$5,000Trees downed.
March 1995HailMaysville$5,000A severe thunderstorm formed over Pendleton County during the early morning hours of March 23rd, then moved east. Dime size hail was reported in Milford (Bracken County) and Sardis (Robertson County). Nickel size hail was reported in Falmouth (Pendleton County), and golfball size hail fell in Maysville (Mason County).
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMaysville$4,000Several trees were blown down in the city of Maysville.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMaysville$3,000Numerous branches up to six inches in diameter were knocked down in Maysville, including a large tree that fell on Jersey Ridge Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMaysville$3,000Trees were knocked down in Maysville.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMaysville$3,000Several trees were knocked down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMaysville$3,000Many large limbs downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMaysville$3,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMaysville$2,000Several trees were reported down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMaysville$2,000Two trees were downed, both blocking roads.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMaysville$2,000Two trees were downed along State Route 8.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindMaysville$2,000Large limbs were downed.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMaysville$2,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMaysville$1,000A large tree was knocked down in the Maysville/Mason County Cemetery.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMaysville$1,000A tree was downed.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindMaysville$1,000A few large limbs were downed in Maysville due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2010Flash FloodMaysville$1,000High water was over roads in Maysville due to heavy rainfall.
August 2007HailMaysville$1,000no account filed
January 2023FloodMaysville-High water was reported on several roads in the Maysville and Orangeburg areas.
February 2021FloodMaysville-High water was reported over Orangeburg Road.
September 2018FloodMaysville-Several roads across Mason County remained closed due to high water.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindMaysville-Pea size hail was also reported.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMaysville-The spotter estimated the wind gust.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMaysville-A few trees and power lines were downed.
June 2003Flash FloodMaysville-Two roads were flooded in town.
July 1995HailMaysville-Hail covered the ground.
April 2015HailMaysville-no account filed
April 2015HailMaysville-no account filed
May 2011HailMaysville-no account filed
November 2002HailMaysville-no account filed
June 1998HailMaysville-no account filed
May 1996HailMaysville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason County

Newspapers printed here

62,602 digitised pages

8 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 15,519 issues, 62,602 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
Daily Public Ledger1892 to 191?
The Dollar Weekly Bulletin1862 to 1864
Daily Evening Bulletin1881 to 1882
Evening Bulletin1882 to 1883
The Public Ledger1913 to 1968
Maysville Weekly Bulletin1864 to 1866
Daily Evening Bulletin1883 to 1887
The Evening Bulletin1887 to 1905

What the paper printed

146,483 words

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 45 issues spread across its run from 1862 to 1922, 146,483 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

IssuePaper Length
1864-05-06Maysville Weekly Bulletin6,356 words
1864-06-09Maysville Weekly Bulletin980 words
1864-07-14Maysville Weekly Bulletin5,094 words
1864-08-11Maysville Weekly Bulletin5,594 words
1864-09-15Maysville Weekly Bulletin5,060 words
1864-10-27Maysville Weekly Bulletin506 words
1914-01-05The Public Ledger1,643 words
1914-03-17The Public Ledger961 words
1914-05-28The Public Ledger755 words
1914-08-08The Public Ledger1,397 words
1914-10-20The Public Ledger1,882 words
1922-12-30The Public Ledger2,899 words
1892-04-06Daily Public Ledger3,970 words
1892-05-31Daily Public Ledger4,868 words
1892-07-23Daily Public Ledger4,771 words
1892-09-15Daily Public Ledger1,230 words
1892-11-07Daily Public Ledger2,997 words
1912-12-20Daily Public Ledger2,244 words
1862-06-19The Dollar Weekly Bulletin6,072 words
1862-07-24The Dollar Weekly Bulletin5,857 words
1862-09-04The Dollar Weekly Bulletin3,487 words
1862-10-16The Dollar Weekly Bulletin6,598 words
1864-04-28The Dollar Weekly Bulletin6,362 words
1881-11-30Daily Evening Bulletin1,389 words
1881-12-08Daily Evening Bulletin1,077 words
1881-12-15Daily Evening Bulletin1,342 words
1881-12-24Daily Evening Bulletin1,378 words
1882-02-17Daily Evening Bulletin1,224 words
1882-02-18Evening Bulletin1,462 words
1882-04-22Evening Bulletin1,647 words
1882-06-24Evening Bulletin1,264 words
1882-08-26Evening Bulletin1,711 words
1882-10-28Evening Bulletin1,279 words
1883-03-24Evening Bulletin1,734 words
1883-03-26Daily Evening Bulletin3,571 words
1883-05-21Daily Evening Bulletin3,654 words
1883-07-17Daily Evening Bulletin4,640 words
1883-09-10Daily Evening Bulletin4,410 words
1883-11-05Daily Evening Bulletin4,453 words
1887-11-02The Evening Bulletin4,987 words
1887-11-14The Evening Bulletin5,535 words
1887-11-25The Evening Bulletin4,128 words
1887-12-08The Evening Bulletin5,203 words
1887-12-20The Evening Bulletin5,032 words
1904-12-31The Evening Bulletin3,780 words

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
Bates (historical)2.2 miles15
Country Club Heights2.4 miles13
Shawnee Hill (historical)2.9 miles13
Somo3.1 miles12
Simon Kenton Acres (historical)3.1 miles13
Old Washington3.8 miles11
Moranburg4.2 miles13
Springdale4.2 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 MaysvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q478393The 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 517025. 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.