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Wayland, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Wayland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41666. It stands on Steele Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wayland quadrangle. 389 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Wayland within Floyd County

Population over time

2 figures

Wayland fell from 426 to 389 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
2010426
2020389-37 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

267 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Wayland between 1997 and 2020, burning about 14,069 acres in total. None started naturally. 58 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
Debris and open burning114
Arson/incendiarism58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Recreation and ceremony38
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking1
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
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEBB ST
13 September 2019Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCLARKS BR
12 September 2002Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTERRY FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wayland in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 4 flash flood, 3 hail. 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 2007Flash FloodWayland$100,000Multiple homes flooded. One family rescued from their home.
August 2013Flash FloodWayland$10,000Route 7 was closed for about an hour due to flooding. At least 6 homes in the area experienced significant flooding.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWayland$3,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2015FloodWayland$1,000Kentucky Route 7 and KY 1086 were impassable due to flooding.
March 2015FloodWayland$1,000Highway 7 was closed due to flooding.
March 2015FloodWayland$1,000Route 7 at the 1086 junction was down to one lane due to flooding.
August 2013Flash FloodWayland$1,000Flash flooding occurred near Wayland.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindWayland$1,000One tree down.
February 2021FloodWayland-Flood waters were reported to be over KY-1085 in the community of Wayland.
May 2016HailWayland-Citizens reported half dollar to hen egg size hail from Wayland to Minnie.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWayland-Large limbs were blown down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWayland-A tree was blown down.
August 2013Heavy RainWayland-Four inches of rain fell in Wayland between 3 and 6 pm.
April 2007Flash FloodWayland-KY Hwy 680 between Wayland and McDowell closed due to high water.
March 2002FloodWayland-A few homes in Wayland and Estill Bottom had water around them.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWayland-Trees downed.
July 2007HailWayland-no account filed
May 2001HailWayland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Glo0.3 miles17
Estill1.1 miles17
Dema1.7 miles17
Lackey2.0 miles17
Porter Junction2.3 miles17
Garrett2.8 miles17
West Garrett3.1 miles17
Minnie3.3 miles17

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 WaylandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2178468The 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 506308. 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.