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Waddy, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Harrisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40076. The Survey maps it on the Waddy quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Waddy within Shelby County

On record in Waddy

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Waddy between 2009 and 2010, burning about 20 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 ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
24 September 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLEWIS FIRE
16 February 2009Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waddy in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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
February 2008Tornado (EF0)Waddy$60,000The tornado destroyed a large barn. Sheet metal from the barn was thrown over 300 yards, and some metal from the barn was 50 yards to the west.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWaddy$50,000A barn was blown down.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindWaddy$25,000Thunderstorm winds did unspecified structural damage to a home.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWaddy-Trees down on Hickory Ridge Road between Ditto Road and Kings Highway in Waddy.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWaddy-Trees were down on Highway 1005 near Bagdad and Highway 395 near Waddy.
March 2017HailWaddy-Hail up to the size of quarters covered the ground.
April 2015HailWaddy-The public reported quarter size hail sized near Waddy.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWaddy-Trees were blown down.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindWaddy-Power lines were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWaddy-Power lines were downed.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWaddy-Trees were blown down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindWaddy-Ham radio operators report 40 to 50 mph sustained winds with gusts up to 60 mph.
May 1996HailWaddy-no account filed
April 1996Flash FloodWaddy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Hemp Ridge2.5 miles13
Peytona3.1 miles13
Harrisonville3.4 miles9
Graefenburg3.5 miles13
Junte4.0 miles9
Clay Village4.2 miles13
Hooper5.1 miles14
Southville6.0 miles12

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 WaddyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7959006The 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 506084. 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.