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.
Population over time
2 figuresPryorsburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 311 | |
| 2020 | 262 | -49 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Mayfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Mayfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1969 USGS Mayfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Mayfield quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
34 since 1997Regional 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/undetermined | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 14 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CURTSINGER |
| 20 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 227 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pryorsburg | $25,000 | Strong 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 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Pryorsburg | $20,000 | The 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 2011 | Hail | Pryorsburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Pryorsburg | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wingo | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Payne | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Stubblefield | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Holifield | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| South Highland | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Baltimore | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Dublin | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Mayfield | 5.6 miles | 11 |
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 Pryorsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7253275 | The 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.





