Wallonia, Kentucky
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Cerulean census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42211. The Survey maps it on the Cobb quadrangle. It stands 440 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Cobb quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Cobb quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
5 photographs, 1916Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
12 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Wallonia between 1999 and 2012, burning about 57 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 June 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | 139 RAMP |
| 26 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PERRY |
| 24 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 December 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HERNDON CI |
| 12 November 1999 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ROCKCASTLE ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallonia in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallonia | $5,000 | Trees were blown down near Interstate 24 in northern Trigg County. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallonia | $3,000 | The state highway department removed two medium-size trees from Highway 124 near Interstate 24. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Wallonia | - | Flash flooding of a creek known as Long Pond Branch was responsible for a vehicle fatality just across the Caldwell County line on Highway 276. The road was washed out beneath the vehicle. The vehicle was then carried over 300 yards into Trigg County by the rushing floodwaters. The driver's body was recovered from the submerged, overturned vehicle after the water began to recede. Farmers in the local area reported about four inches of rain in two hours. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallonia | - | A wind gust to 60 mph was measured along Interstate 24 near mile marker 56. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cerulean | 4.0 miles | 6 | |
| Black Hawk | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Montgomery | 5.1 miles | 6 | |
| Buffalo | 5.4 miles | 6 | |
| Cadiz | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Cedar Point | 8.0 miles | 7 | |
| Trigg Furnace | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Caledonia | 9.8 miles | 8 |
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 Wallonia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17492531 | The 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 506155. 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.




