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Salvisa, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Salvisa-McAfee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40372. It stands on Lyons Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salvisa quadrangle. 410 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Salvisa within Mercer County

On record in Salvisa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Salvisa fell from 420 to 410 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
2010420
2020410-10 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Salvisa between 2008 and 2012, burning about 32 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 maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
27 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLD SAWMIL
4 November 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mercer County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salvisa in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 8 injuries. 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
May 1995Tornado (F2)Salvisa8 hurt, $5,000,000no account filed
May 2010FloodSalvisa$100,000Six to seven inches of rain fell over Mercer county from May 1-2. This caused major flooding on the Kentucky River that lasted many days before receding.
July 2006LightningSalvisa$50,000A barn was struck by lightning and burned.
June 1998LightningSalvisa$50,000Lightning struck an auto body shop causing major damage.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindSalvisa$10,000A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report of a barn down in Salvisa due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSalvisa$5,000The public reported that a 175 foot steel tower used for amateur radio antennas was toppled by high winds on Bondville Road.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Salvisa$5,000DES reported a weak F0 tornado cut a narrow path of 2 miles along Gilbert's Creek damaging 2 storage buildings but 125 trees were uprooted. Resulting debris blocked off most of Oregon Road from US 127 to the Kentucky River where the tornado lifted.
June 2007LightningSalvisa$3,000Lightning destroyed a small outbuilding.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindSalvisa-The National Weather Service in Louisville confirmed straight-line winds in Salvisa. There was a bunch of cedar and maple tree damage off of Old Louisville Road on the north side of Salvisa. Three homes experienced shingle, gutter and roof damage. ||A barndominium had the most significant damage with a large section of the roof thrown several hundred yards to the east southeast. Wind speeds were estimated between 75 and 80 mph, with a width of the damage of up to a half mile sporadically.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindSalvisa-A tree fell over a road near Salvisa.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSalvisa-A tree fell down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindSalvisa-A law enforcement official reported trees down on Old Louisville and Kirkwood Rd.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindSalvisa-Damage to several structures including a tobacco barn and a fence row near Salvisa.
August 1997HailSalvisa-Dime size hail reported.
May 1995TornadoSalvisa-Citizen reports tornado touchdown.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindSalvisa-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindSalvisa-no account filed
May 1995Tornado (F2)Salvisa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Bondville0.8 miles12
Oregon1.8 miles12
Vanarsdell2.1 miles11
Lucto (historical)3.3 miles11
Ebenezer3.4 miles12
Kirkwood3.5 miles11
Lucton (historical)4.4 miles11
McAfee4.6 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 SalvisaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6117903The 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 502854. 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.