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Water Valley, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wingo-Water Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42085. It stands on South Fork Bayou de Chien. The Survey maps it on the Water Valley quadrangle. 235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Water Valley within Graves County

On record in Water Valley

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

Population over time

2 figures

Water Valley fell from 279 to 235 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010279
2020235-44 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

44 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Water Valley between 1998 and 2019, burning about 295 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/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony12
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenance11 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMURCHERSON ROAD FIRE
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBARD ROAD
18 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graves County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Water Valley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bards PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Graves 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
Feliciana1.5 miles10
Roper3.4 miles10
Pilot Oak4.9 miles9
Wingo6.5 miles11
Holifield6.7 miles10
Baltimore8.4 miles10
Stubblefield8.5 miles11
Buena Vista (historical)9.0 miles9

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 Water ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1847805The 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 506261. 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.