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Wallingford, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Flemingsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41093. It lies near Pew Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Burtonville quadrangle. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Wallingford within Fleming County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Wallingford between 1997 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
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
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestPAR 5
24 June 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGODDARD RD
25 April 2012Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySUIT LANE
24 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGODDARD RD
24 April 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2016Recreation and ceremony40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEECHY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallingford in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWallingford$10,000Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWallingford$2,000A few large limbs were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWallingford$2,000Winds brought trees and power lines down.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWallingford$1,000There was one tree down on Park Lake Road.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWallingford$1,000A tree was blown down on Sutton Road near Wallingford.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWallingford-A tree was uprooted and hanging over the road, stuck in another tree, along the 4800 block of Goddard Road, east of the community of Goddard.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWallingford-The Fleming County dispatch reported that a strong thunderstorm gust front knocked down multiple trees along Dudley Hollow and Wooley Roads.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWallingford-Trees were blown down.
July 2010Flash FloodWallingford-Water was over Hwy 1013 Muses Mill Rd near Wallingford and also near Park Lake.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindWallingford-Several trees were blown down across the area.
March 2004HailWallingford-no account filed
May 2004HailWallingford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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
Carpentersville (historical)0.2 miles8
Pea Ridge (historical)2.2 miles8
Bluebank2.7 miles8
Goddard2.9 miles8
Park Lake Resort (historical)3.0 miles8
Beechburg3.2 miles8
Poplar Plains4.5 miles10
Foxport4.9 miles8

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 WallingfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622057The 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 506152. 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.