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Tri City, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sedalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42079. The Survey maps it on the Lynnville quadrangle.

Tri City within Graves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Tri City between 1997 and 2015, burning about 129 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2015Recreation and ceremony1.8 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAIRBANKS ROAD FIRE
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHONEY BEE LANE
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 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 Tri City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Farmington Clay MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Graves County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tri City in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Thunderstorm WindTri City$50,000There were numerous trees down and some outbuildings damaged in the southeast corner of Graves County.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindTri City$15,000An entire barn was blown onto a state highway near the intersection of Kentucky Highways 94 and 564. Traffic was blocked for more than two hours.
December 2021Tornado (EF0)Tri City$4,000Along the Graves County portion of the path, many large tree branches were down. The short portion of the path in Graves County was rated EF-0. The tornado then proceeded into Calloway County.
February 2011Flash FloodTri City-A horse-drawn buggy carrying an Amish family was washed away at a low water crossing on a rural gravel road. Four children drowned after they were swept down a swollen creek a short distance into Hickman County. The low water crossing itself was right on the Graves County line. Water was over a number of roads in Graves County, including U.S. Highway 45 at the Hickman County line. Water was over Kentucky Highway 97 between the 5 and 15 mile markers.
September 2002Flash FloodTri City-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindTri City-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
Vealsburg1.0 miles9
Cooksville1.6 miles9
Lynnville2.8 miles9
Browns Grove3.3 miles10
Bell City4.0 miles9
Fairbanks4.6 miles9
Cuba5.2 miles9
Sedalia5.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 505489. 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.