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Waverly, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Morganfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42462. The Survey maps it on the Waverly quadrangle. 311 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Waverly within Union County

On record in Waverly

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

3 figures

Waverly grew from 297 to 311 between 2000 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
2000297
2010308+11 (+4%)
2020311+3 (+1%)

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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Waverly between 2005 and 2013, burning about 16 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/undetermined2
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
19 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2013Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMCLURE CEMETARY ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waverly in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
November 2005Thunderstorm WindWaverly$3,000A home received roof damage.
April 2011Flash FloodWaverly-U.S. Highway 60 was flooded about a mile west of the Henderson County line. Kentucky Highways 760 and 492 were closed in places.
January 2013Funnel CloudWaverly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Saint Vincent1.5 miles13
Flournoy2.8 miles13
Hitesville3.1 miles17
Breckinridge Center3.2 miles13
King Mills3.7 miles13
McClure (historical)4.3 miles13
Robinsville4.7 miles17
Topeka Crossroads (historical)4.8 miles13

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 WaverlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2093927The 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 506302. 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.