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Summersville, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Summersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42743. The Survey maps it on the Summersville quadrangle. 551 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Summersville within Green County

On record in Summersville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Summersville fell from 568 to 551 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
2010568
2020551-17 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

26 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Summersville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 March 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMARSHALL RIDGE ROAD
8 March 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2012Debris and open burning47 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRAMBLE HU
5 March 2017Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMPBELLSVILLE HWY
31 March 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2008Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2001Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summersville in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002Thunderstorm WindSummersville$1,200,000Eight houses were destroyed. Two houses had major damage. Eight other homes had minor damage. Thirteen barns were damaged or destroyed. Six businesses had damage. An unoccupied mobile home was flipped over a house and into a tree. Numerous trees and power lines were down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSummersville-Trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds near Summersville.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSummersville-A barn roof was damaged by strong winds on Marshall Ridge Road.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindSummersville-Trees were reported down between Summersville and Greensburg.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindSummersville-The public reported a measured gust of 70 mph.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSummersville-A law enforcement official reported that a tree fell on Highway 61 in Summersville. Other trees were down in Greensburg from the severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSummersville-Two trees were blown down in Summersville.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSummersville-Trees were downed.
September 2006Flash FloodSummersville-Streams were out of their banks and some roadways were flooded.
April 2018HailSummersville-no account filed
January 1997HailSummersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Green 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
Gabe2.0 miles10
Bloyds Crossing2.8 miles10
Coakley3.5 miles9
Allendale3.7 miles10
Greensburg5.1 miles9
Lobb5.5 miles8
Bluff Boom5.5 miles9
Webbs5.5 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 SummersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637678The 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 504784. 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.