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Pryorsburg, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mayfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42066. It stands on Opossum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mayfield quadrangle. 262 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 417 feet above sea level.

Pryorsburg within Graves County

Population over time

2 figures

Pryorsburg fell from 311 to 262 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
2010311
2020262-49 (-16%)

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.

Fires near this place

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Pryorsburg between 1997 and 2016, burning about 381 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCURTSINGER
20 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance227 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graves County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pryorsburg in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPryorsburg$25,000Strong damaging winds affected southwest Graves County. At Pryorsburg, the front of a restaurant was damaged, and windows were blown out of cars. At Water Valley, a tree fell on an unoccupied house.
April 2018Tornado (EF1)Pryorsburg$20,000The tornado started just south of Kentucky Highway 1748, where it uprooted some trees. As the tornado continued northeast, tin from barn roofs was lofted about 100 yards into a nearby field. An unoccupied mobile home was moved about four feet from its foundation. The walls were gone, but the wood frame and roof remained. Trees nearby were snapped. Peak winds were estimated near 95 mph. The tornado lifted just as it reached the Purchase Parkway.
April 2011HailPryorsburg-no account filed
March 2002HailPryorsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Graves 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
Wingo3.3 miles11
Payne3.7 miles11
Stubblefield3.9 miles11
Holifield4.3 miles10
South Highland4.3 miles11
Baltimore4.9 miles10
Dublin5.4 miles10
Mayfield5.6 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 PryorsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7253275The 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 501396. 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.