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Waynesburg, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Waynesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40489. It stands on Sims Branch. The Survey maps it on the Eubank quadrangle. It stands 1,217 feet above sea level.

Waynesburg within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

36 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Waynesburg between 1998 and 2016, burning about 590 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning19
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
18 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMCQUEEN
16 April 2010Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2010Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryTROY ADAMS
13 April 2014Debris and open burning46 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOUNTY LINE
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waynesburg in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg$500,000A 20 x 40 shed was destroyed and the roofs of two homes were blown off.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg$200,000Roofs were blown off houses. Barns were destroyed. Vehicles were damaged by flying debris. A 45 inch diameter tree was pulled out of the ground.
April 2009Tornado (EF1)Waynesburg$100,000The tornado began in Pulaski County in the Jackson, KY County Warning Area giving a total path length of 6.9 miles. Damage to homes, barns, mobile homes and trees were observed. A rating of EF1 was assigned by NWS Louisville survey teams with wind speeds of 100 to 110 mph and a 100 yard wide path width. Near the end of the tornado's lifespan multiple vorticies were witnessed just before dissipation. This was when the tornado did its greatest damage, moving a conventional home more than ten feet off it's foundation and destroying an unoccupied mobile home.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg$20,000Local media reported a roof was blown off a barn.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg$20,000Quite a few trees and power lines were downed across Lincoln County. In Waynesburg, a tree fell through the roof of a mobile home.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg$20,000The roof was blown off a home.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg$15,000Local law enforcement reported a tree down on a car on 220 Ike Singleton Road and several trees down in the Waynesburg area.
May 2010Flash FloodWaynesburg$10,000The public reported flooding in Waynesburg with water entering buildings.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg$3,000Several trees were downed by thunderstorm winds, damaging a couple of vehicles.
January 2018Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg$2,000Trees fell on a power line on Highway 328 East.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg-A tree was blown down near the 700 block of Clear Fork Road.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg-There were multiple trees that fell down on Greenbriar Road.
November 2019Flash FloodWaynesburg-Peyton Wells Road and North Fishing Creek Road were closed due to flooding. Several other roads were also flooded.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg-The Lincoln County emergency manager reported several trees blocking the road due to severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2015Flash FloodWaynesburg-Emergency manager reported that KY 3264 at MP 2 was closed due to high water. Between 3 and 4 inches of rain fell across the area.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg-Local law enforcement reported a large tree down, blocking Clear Fork Road.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg-Trees were blown down in Waynesburg near Hwy. 27 S. The time is estimated based on radar.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindWaynesburg-A few small trees were downed.
April 1998HailWaynesburg-Dime size hail reported by DES.
June 2004HailWaynesburg-no account filed
May 2002HailWaynesburg-no account filed
July 2001HailWaynesburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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.

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 WaynesburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7976814The 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 506311. 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.