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Maytown, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Grassy Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41425. It stands on Little Blackwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hazel Green quadrangle. 227 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Maytown within Morgan County

Population over time

2 figures

Maytown fell from 243 to 227 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
2010243
2020227-16 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Maytown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 530 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7

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
3 May 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 May 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 May 2000Arson/incendiarism125 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Debris and open burning16 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMAYTOWN
9 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER LONG BRANCH
7 April 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFALLING WATER RD
6 April 1999Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maytown in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMaytown$3,000Trees were blown down in downtown Maytown.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMaytown-A tree was reported down near mile marker two of Hwy-1010, close to the intersection with Grassy-Backwater Creek Road, just north of the community of Maytown.
July 2021Flash FloodMaytown-Hwy 2027 is closed near the intersection of Hwy 1010 in the community of Maytown due to water flowing over the road making it impassable.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMaytown-Dispatch relayed a report of a tree down northwest of Maytown.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindMaytown-Several trees down on Highway 2027 near Maytown.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Jericho (historical)3.0 miles14
Murphyfork3.1 miles14
Ezel3.3 miles14
Pekin4.8 miles14
Caskey Fork (historical)5.2 miles14
Mize5.3 miles14
Rexville5.6 miles14
Grassy Creek6.8 miles14

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 MaytownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11005042The 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 508571. 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.