Waco, Kentucky

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

• Griggs Houselisted 1989

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.

• 1892 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1952 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Waco between 1998 and 2014, burning about 153 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Elliston
• Bybee
• Moberly
• Brassfield
• Speedwell
• College Hill

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Waco: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. 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.

Every working recorded in Madison County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waco in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.

Every storm recorded in Madison County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 506078. 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.