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Payneville, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Battletown-Payneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40157. The Survey maps it on the Irvington quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Payneville within Meade County

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.

Fires near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Payneville between 1998 and 2012, burning about 72 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 ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySIROCCO RD
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEAD HORSE HOLLOW FIRE
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2009Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 1998Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Payneville in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindPayneville-A new porch was thrown into a tree, and a chicken coop was thrown about 100 yards.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPayneville-A tree was blown down near the intersection of Kentucky Route 376 and New State Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPayneville-Trees were blown down along Kentucky Route 376.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindPayneville-Trees were reported down on Fackler Road near Payneville, Kentucky.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Payneville-A NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-0 tornado with wind speeds estimated to be 65-80 mph touched down in Breckinridge county. The tornado lifted in several locations along the 11 mi. path, with the greatest width of 50 yards. The tornado continued into Meade county where it last lifted 4 miles west of Brandenburg. The worst damage with this tornado occurred at a house in an elevated location along Sirocco Road in Meade County. At that location a carport that was attached to the house blew across the field behind it. Trees were snapped or uprooted, a barn door was blown in, and shingles were blown off of the roof of another nearby house.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindPayneville-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindPayneville-Trees were downed.
April 2006HailPayneville-no account filed
April 2006HailPayneville-no account filed
March 2002HailPayneville-no account filed
May 2002HailPayneville-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPayneville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Sirocco2.2 miles15
Arnold (historical)2.3 miles15
Liberty2.7 miles15
Preston (historical)3.9 miles17
Lodale4.1 miles15
Andyville4.4 miles15
Cold Springs4.6 miles15
Midway4.7 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 PaynevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7156860The 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 500299. 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.