South Williamson, Kentucky
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41503. It stands on Julius Branch. The Survey maps it on the Williamson quadrangle. 562 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSouth Williamson fell from 602 to 562 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 | 602 | |
| 2020 | 562 | -40 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 23 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.
- 1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:48000
- 1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
190 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of South Williamson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,310 acres in total. None started naturally. 48 were 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 burning | 77 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 48 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Fireworks | 23 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GOODY |
| 13 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LOFTIS MANSION |
| 13 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 140 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | FROG POND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Williamson in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 2002 | Flash Flood | South Williamson | $10,000 | Heavy thunderstorm rains inundated a section of Kentucky Highway 468 near Turkey Creak, and washed the road away with six to eight inches of water quickly flowing over the road. |
| February 2020 | Heavy Rain | South Williamson | $5,000 | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet relayed a report of a rockslide, due to previous heavy rain, on Kentucky Highway 292 between U.S. Highway 119 and ARH Hospital near Williamson. |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Williamson | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Williamson | $1,000 | Fences and several large trees down. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Williamson | - | Local law enforcement reported a couple of trees blown down just southeast of Turkey Creek and near South Williamson along Kentucky Highway 292. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | South Williamson | - | Two inches of rain fell in South Williamson in a 45 minute period. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Williamson | - | Trees down. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | South Williamson | - | Flash flooding occurred along the Cane Fork of Turkey Creek. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Williamson | - | Numerous trees down blocking roads. |
| May 2008 | Hail | South Williamson | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | South Williamson | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | South Williamson | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | South Williamson | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Williamson | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Camp | 0.8 miles | 23 | |
| Goody | 1.0 miles | 23 | |
| Leckieville | 1.1 miles | 23 | |
| Turkey Creek | 1.2 miles | 23 | |
| Slatter Branch (historical) | 1.8 miles | 23 | |
| Aflex | 2.2 miles | 22 | |
| Forest Hills | 2.4 miles | 23 | |
| Road Fork (historical) | 2.6 miles | 23 |
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 South Williamson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7568948 | 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 503986. 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.










