Tress Shop, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Elkton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42220. The Survey maps it on the Elkton quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Tress Shop within Todd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1951 USGS Elkton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Tress Shop in 2016, burning about 1 acre 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	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
12 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	1 MILE SPOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd 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 Tress Shop: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Todd Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tress Shop in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Tress Shop	$150,000	The tornado tracked from west to east, passing just north of Elkton by only about one mile. Several older barns were damaged or destroyed. Many large trees were uprooted or snapped. Two semi trailers were flipped over. One of the trailers, which was at the intersection of Highways 181 and 106, was storing construction equipment. There was minor roof damage. Peak winds were estimated near 90 mph.
May 2010	Flood	Tress Shop	$20,000	At least 27 roads across the county were closed, and another 19 were water-covered but open. The closings were most numerous across the southern half of the county. One bridge was under 11 feet of water. Many creeks and streams across the county were out of their banks. Many acres of cropland were under water. A trained spotter in Claymour measured total rainfall of 9.30 inches for the entire event from late on the 30th to early on the 2nd. Another spotter six miles southwest of Elkton measured 7.50 inches.
September 2023	Flash Flood	Tress Shop	$10,000	A water rescue was conducted on Highway 475 after a vehicle became submerged in floodwaters up to the taillights. The Todd County Rescue Squad assisted her out of the vehicle, and she was not injured. The incident occurred closer to the U.S. Highway 68 end of Highway 475.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tress Shop	$10,000	Some trees and power lines were blown down around the county.
April 2011	Hail	Tress Shop	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bells Chapel (historical)	2.7 miles	8
Tabernacle	3.2 miles	7
Wilhelmina	3.4 miles	7
Elkton	3.6 miles	7
Liberty	4.3 miles	7
Bradshaw	4.9 miles	7
Britmart	5.0 miles	7
Zion	5.8 miles	7

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 Tress Shop	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7838818	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 509231. 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.