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Symsonia, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Symsonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42082. It lies near Surrett Hill. The Survey maps it on the Symsonia quadrangle. 622 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Symsonia within Graves County

On record in Symsonia

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Symsonia grew from 615 to 622 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
2010615
2020622+7 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Symsonia between 1998 and 2017, burning about 106 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
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
7 September 1999Smoking3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graves County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Symsonia: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Ball Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Negro Fairgrounds ProspectBall ClayProspect

Every working recorded in Graves County

Storms near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Symsonia in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 4 hail, 3 flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 2 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSymsonia1 killed, $45,000A 56-year-old man was killed when a tree fell onto the cab of his truck. The truck struck a fallen tree along Highway 534, and then continued along the road until another tree fell on the truck cab and crushed it. Dozens of trees were uprooted or snapped. This vehicle fatality occurred near the beginning of a microburst damage path. The damage path width was about one mile. Peak winds in this portion of the damage path were estimated near 80 mph. The microburst continued eastward into Marshall County.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSymsonia1 killed, $5,000A tree fell on a house in Symsonia, trapping a 75-year-old male. He later succumbed to his injuries.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindSymsonia2 hurt, $60,000no account filed
February 2018FloodSymsonia$1,000,000A number of roads were flooded and closed in the river bottoms of the Clarks River and its tributaries. Water was over Kentucky Highway 131 at the Graves/McCracken County line. A secondary road was washed out at the intersection of Whitis and Watkins Road northeast of Hickory. Total road damage in Graves County was estimated over one million dollars.
April 2013Tornado (EF0)Symsonia$35,000There was shingle and soffit damage to several homes. Several trees were snapped, and large branches were blown down. The average damage path width was 150 yards, and the peak winds were about 80 mph. The tornado moved into Marshall County near the community of Oak Level.
August 2016Flash FloodSymsonia$30,000A secondary road was washed out just north of Symsonia. A culvert was washed out, leaving a deep channel at least 10 feet deep.
March 2018FloodSymsonia$25,000Extensive flooding of the Clarks River continued from late February. A number of roads were flooded and closed in the river bottoms of the Clarks River and its tributaries. Water was over Kentucky Highway 131 at the Graves/McCracken County line. A secondary road was washed out at the intersection of Whitis and Watkins Road northeast of Hickory.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSymsonia$10,000Power lines and trees were down in the Symsonia area.
January 2013Flash FloodSymsonia$10,000A car was stranded in floodwaters.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSymsonia$5,000Trees were down.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindSymsonia$5,000A wood and metal shed was destroyed.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSymsonia$5,000Trees were down at several locations in the county, including the Symsonia area and the city of Mayfield.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSymsonia$5,000A large tree fell across a road near Symsonia. Motorists suffered minor injuries when their vehicle struck the tree.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSymsonia$2,000Thunderstorm downdraft winds blew down trees near Symsonia.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSymsonia$2,000Several trees were blown down.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindSymsonia-The public estimated a wind gust to 60 mph.
December 2015Flash FloodSymsonia-Highway 131 was flooded and closed. The flooding was partially the result of backwater from the Clarks River.
December 2015Funnel CloudSymsonia-A funnel cloud was reported by state police along the Marshall and McCracken County line.
May 2010FloodSymsonia-Kentucky Highway 348 was closed near Symsonia due to flooding of the Clarks River.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Symsonia-Several large trees were uprooted. The tornado was witnessed by a firefighter. The damage was along Highway 348.
May 2000HailSymsonia-Ping pong ball size hail fell near Symsonia. This storm cell later tracked into Marshall County and became tornadic.
May 1998HailSymsonia-A severe thunderstorm tracked near the McCracken/Graves County border, producing nickel to golf ball size hail on both sides of the county line.
May 1997Flash FloodSymsonia-Slow moving thunderstorms dumped as much as 3 inches of rain over extreme northeast Graves County within 3 hours, according to radar estimates. Although other parts of the county received less rain, there was still some road flooding. Highway 96 was covered with a couple inches of water south of Mayfield.
March 2018HailSymsonia-no account filed
April 2011HailSymsonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Graves 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
Kaler2.8 miles11
Dogwood3.9 miles11
Clear Springs6.5 miles13
Boaz6.5 miles12
Westplains7.7 miles13
Viola7.8 miles12
Folsomdale8.6 miles12
Hicksville8.6 miles13

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 SymsoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7661918The 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 504895. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.