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Wadesboro, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kirksey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42036. It stands on Muck Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dexter quadrangle. It stands 463 feet above sea level.

Wadesboro within Calloway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Wadesboro between 1998 and 2014, burning about 194 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 ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning3
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
25 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRUSHY CR
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2014Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry305 NANNIE NEAL RD.
2 April 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2009Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCKET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calloway County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wadesboro in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood. 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
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Wadesboro$80,000A brief touchdown occurred, with numerous trees snapped or uprooted. There were varying degrees of roof damage to a few buildings. One metal-framed building was crushed. Peak winds were estimated near 70 mph. The average path width was 150 yards.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWadesboro$65,000As a thunderstorm drifted northward in Calloway County, a roof was completely blown off of a concrete building on Ingram Lane. A residence on Crestview Ln had substantial tree damage. A pole barn was destroyed west of Dexter. A utility company reported several trees down across central and northern Calloway County with over 1,200 without power.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWadesboro$3,000Power lines were down along Oak Grove Road.
December 2013Tornado (EF0)Wadesboro$2,000A relatively weak tornado touched down 2 miles west of Dexter in northern Calloway County. The tornado uprooted a couple of trees and downed power lines during its brief touchdown.
February 2025FloodWadesboro-Flash flooding from the 15th into early on the 16th transitioned to areal flooding along the Clarks River from Almo to the Dexter area. Highway 1346 and other local roads were closed.

Every storm recorded in Calloway 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
Blakely (historical)1.0 miles12
Dexter1.4 miles12
Pleasant Hill2.8 miles12
Flint (historical)3.7 miles12
Almo Heights4.0 miles12
Almo4.3 miles12
Independence (historical)4.8 miles13
Kirksey5.2 miles11

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 WadesboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691481The 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 509298. 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.