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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.

Summer Shade within Metcalfe County

Population over time

2 figures

Summer 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.

YearPeople Change
2010307
2020294-13 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

15 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined38 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEAUMONT HILL FIRE
24 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOODLUCK ROAD FIRE
24 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRUTLEDGE FIRE
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Metcalfe County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1997Tornado (F2)Summer Shade1 killed, 6 hurt, $1,000,000no account filed
April 2006Tornado (F2)Summer Shade$175,000Several 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 2006Thunderstorm WindSummer Shade$25,000Several homes received unspecified structural damage.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSummer Shade-Trees were down along Summer Shade Road.
February 2019FloodSummer Shade-Kentucky 640 was closed due to high water. Several other rural roads in the county had water over them.
October 2014HailSummer Shade-A supercell thunderstorm that began near Bowling Green brought 1.75 inch hail to a location 2 miles east of Eighty Eight.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSummer Shade-A tree was toppled in Summer Shade.
June 2009Tornado (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 2009Thunderstorm WindSummer Shade-Trees were downed near Summer Shade.
February 2009HailSummer Shade-no account filed
April 2009HailSummer Shade-no account filed
May 2006HailSummer Shade-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindSummer Shade-no account filed
May 2002HailSummer Shade-no account filed
April 2002HailSummer Shade-no account filed
November 2000Thunderstorm WindSummer Shade-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSummer Shade-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Metcalfe 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
Beaumont2.7 miles8
Goodluck4.3 miles8
Willow Shade5.6 miles8
Randolph6.0 miles8
Cedar Flats6.4 miles10
Curtis7.5 miles10
Edmonton8.2 miles10
Wisdom8.3 miles10

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 ShadeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9080510The 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.