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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.

South Williamson within Pike County

Population over time

2 figures

South 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.

YearPeople Change
2010602
2020562-40 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

190 since 1992

Regional 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 burning77
Arson/incendiarism48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Fireworks23
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOODY
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOFTIS MANSION
13 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
17 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2008Debris and open burning140 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFROG POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002Flash FloodSouth Williamson$10,000Heavy 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 2020Heavy RainSouth Williamson$5,000The 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 1997Thunderstorm WindSouth Williamson$2,000no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindSouth Williamson$1,000Fences and several large trees down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSouth 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 2011Heavy RainSouth Williamson-Two inches of rain fell in South Williamson in a 45 minute period.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindSouth Williamson-Trees down.
June 2003Flash FloodSouth Williamson-Flash flooding occurred along the Cane Fork of Turkey Creek.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindSouth Williamson-Numerous trees down blocking roads.
May 2008HailSouth Williamson-no account filed
April 2006HailSouth Williamson-no account filed
May 2001HailSouth Williamson-no account filed
January 1999HailSouth Williamson-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSouth Williamson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
New Camp0.8 miles23
Goody1.0 miles23
Leckieville1.1 miles23
Turkey Creek1.2 miles23
Slatter Branch (historical)1.8 miles23
Aflex2.2 miles22
Forest Hills2.4 miles23
Road Fork (historical)2.6 miles23

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 WilliamsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7568948The 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.