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Montgomery, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Cadiz census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42211. The Survey maps it on the Gracey quadrangle. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Montgomery within Trigg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Montgomery between 1999 and 2010, burning about 186 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
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1

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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance153 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONG
8 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 November 1999Smoking3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 October 2010Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryI-24 FIRE
30 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMILLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trigg County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montgomery in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail, 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
March 2012Thunderstorm WindMontgomery$30,000Thunderstorm winds caused damage to a barn, silo and outbuilding, in addition to bringing down several power lines on Highway 276.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindMontgomery$10,000A trained spotter measured a wind gust to 75 mph on Interstate 24 near Montgomery, which is near the Cadiz exit. About 1,000 households were without power in Trigg County.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMontgomery$1,000A large tree limb three to four inches in diameter was down on Kentucky Route 1585. Other small limbs were down in the area.
January 2025FloodMontgomery-Minor street flooding was reported east of Cadiz. Radar estimated rainfall in this area was around 2 inches at the time, with an additional inch of rain spread out through the evening hours.
May 2024Flash FloodMontgomery-Flash flooding occurred over US68 near I-24. Radar estimated 3-hr rainfall totals were around two inches in the area.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-A wind gust to 70 mph was measured at WKDZ radio.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-A trained spotter near the Christian County line measured a wind gust to 58 mph.
June 2009HailMontgomery-Quarter size hail was reported on Interstate 24 at the Cadiz exit (U.S. Highway 68).
March 2008FloodMontgomery-Several roads were flooded, and the Little River rose out of its banks.

Every storm recorded in Trigg 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
Buffalo4.1 miles6
Caledonia4.7 miles8
Cadiz5.1 miles7
Wallonia5.1 miles7
Cerulean5.8 miles6
Cedar Point8.1 miles7
Black Hawk9.2 miles8
Trigg Furnace10.4 miles8

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 MontgomeryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17492484The 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 508628. 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.