Somo, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Maysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41056. The Survey maps it on the Orangeburg quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Somo within Mason County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:48000
1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
1952 USGS Orangeburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Somo between 1999 and 2016, burning about 14 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	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
5 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MAXEY FLAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Somo: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cabin Creek Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Buckeye Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Maysville Dredging, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Somo in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
April 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Somo	$50,000	The first and primary visible damage of the tornado occurred at a property just off North Knoweshaw Road, near the intersection of the AA Highway. Here, notable damage occurred to an outbuilding, with a complete collapse of the wall structures. There were several trees that were broken and uprooted on this property as well, but the damage to the outbuilding was just enough to classify this tornado as an EF-1, with wind speeds estimated around 90 mph. \|\|Video footage was captured of this tornado crossing the AA Highway. The only other damage that occurred was at a property just on the south side of the AA Highway after the tornado crossed it. The primary damage here was hardwood trees that were broken. One of the windows was broken at the dwelling on this property as well. After this property, no other damage was reported, but there was insulation and other debris that was thrown across the fields southeast of this property, with the last known debris found at a nearby landfill. No property damage was observed at the landfill.
February 2025	Flood	Somo	-	Orangeburg Road was closed due to high water covering the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Mason 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Taylors Mill (historical)	1.6 miles	12
Maysville	3.1 miles	15
Bates (historical)	3.3 miles	15
Orangeburg	3.5 miles	12
Lewisburg	3.5 miles	11
Plumville	3.6 miles	12
Shawnee Hill (historical)	3.7 miles	13
Marshall	3.7 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 Somo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18379259	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 515534. 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.