Summer Shade, Kentucky
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Summer Shade census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42166. The Survey maps it on the Summer Shade quadrangle. 294 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSummer Shade fell from 307 to 294 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 | 307 | |
| 2020 | 294 | -13 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Summer Shade quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Summer Shade quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Summer Shade between 1999 and 2019, burning about 72 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BEAUMONT HILL FIRE |
| 24 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GOODLUCK ROAD FIRE |
| 24 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RUTLEDGE FIRE |
| 28 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summer Shade in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 6 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Tornado (F2) | Summer Shade | 1 killed, 6 hurt, $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F2) | Summer Shade | $175,000 | Several homes and barns were destroyed on Froedge-Dubree and Pitcock Roads in the Summer Shade area, as a tornado moved from Barren into Metcalfe County. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summer Shade | $25,000 | Several homes received unspecified structural damage. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summer Shade | - | Trees were down along Summer Shade Road. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Summer Shade | - | Kentucky 640 was closed due to high water. Several other rural roads in the county had water over them. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Summer Shade | - | A supercell thunderstorm that began near Bowling Green brought 1.75 inch hail to a location 2 miles east of Eighty Eight. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summer Shade | - | A tree was toppled in Summer Shade. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Summer Shade | - | This short-lived tornado was only on the ground for approximately 1.3 miles, touching down in far southern Metcalfe County, and lifting in far northern Monroe County. Along its path of about 3 minutes in duration, the tornado had a maximum width of 150 yards and did damage to a metal shed, minor damage to the roof and porch of two separate homes, moved a tobacco barn off its foundation, and snapped numerous trees and tree limbs.||The tornado first touched down in extreme southern Metcalfe County about 1.2 miles west-northwest of the town of Cyclone around 701 pm CDT. The tornado moved over primarily rural pasture and cropland into far northern Monroe County, where it lifted about one third of a mile south of Cyclone around 704 pm CDT. ||This EF-1 tornado produced top wind speeds of 105 mph. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summer Shade | - | Trees were downed near Summer Shade. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Summer Shade | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Summer Shade | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Summer Shade | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summer Shade | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Summer Shade | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Summer Shade | - | no account filed |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summer Shade | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summer Shade | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont | 2.7 miles | 8 | |
| Goodluck | 4.3 miles | 8 | |
| Willow Shade | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Randolph | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Cedar Flats | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Curtis | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Edmonton | 8.2 miles | 10 | |
| Wisdom | 8.3 miles | 10 |
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 Summer Shade | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q9080510 | 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 504782. 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.




