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Slaughters, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sebree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42456. The Survey maps it on the Slaughters quadrangle. 190 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Slaughters within Webster County

Population over time

3 figures

Slaughters fell from 238 to 190 between 2000 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
2000238
2010216-22 (-9%)
2020190-26 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Slaughters between 1998 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
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
20 July 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestry3 MAN FIRE
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2017Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJONES ROAD
29 March 2019Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLINK ROAD
29 March 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Slaughters: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jewel City Clay MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slaughters in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2019: 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2006Flash FloodSlaughters1 killed, $20,000A 46-year-old female drowned while attempting to cross floodwaters on Kentucky 138. The victim was swept away after she got out of her car, which was partially moved off the road. Her body was found three-tenths of a mile from her car.
March 2019Tornado (EF0)Slaughters$1,000The tornado was captured on video near its beginning. A television antenna tower near a home was knocked over. Otherwise, damage was limited to disturbed corn stubble in agricultural fields along U.S. Highway 41 north of Slaughters. Peak winds were estimated near 70 mph.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindSlaughters$1,000Large tree limbs were blown down on the southeast side of Slaughters off U.S. Highway 41.
July 2016FloodSlaughters-Widespread minor street flooding occurred in the community.
December 2016Funnel CloudSlaughters-A trained spotter reported a rain-wrapped funnel cloud.
March 2012HailSlaughters-Golf ball size hail was reported just north of Slaughters.
August 2017HailSlaughters-no account filed
December 2015HailSlaughters-no account filed
May 2006HailSlaughters-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Elmwood2.7 miles14
Breton4.4 miles15
Onton5.7 miles14
Gatesville5.9 miles15
Ortiz7.3 miles15
Vanderburg7.5 miles13
Steamport Landing8.0 miles14
Sebree8.3 miles15

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 SlaughtersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1833605The 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 503668. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.