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Woodlawn, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Paducah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42003. It stands on Clarks River. The Survey maps it on the Paducah East quadrangle.

Woodlawn within McCracken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 24 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Woodlawn between 1999 and 2017, burning about 91 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/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 August 2012Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOHNY KING
28 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLD MAYFIELD ROAD
2 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOMES ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCracken 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 Woodlawn: 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
Federal Mine DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in McCracken County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodlawn in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2011Flash FloodWoodlawn$120,000In Paducah, several vehicles were stranded beneath a railroad overpass on U.S. Highway 62. Vehicles were stalled out on at least one other flooded roadway. One of the vehicles was a van with three children inside. A tow truck successfully pulled the van out of the water. Numerous other traffic issues occurred in Paducah due to water on the roadways. There was minor flooding of several residences in Paducah. Water was deep enough to enter vehicles on U.S. Highway 62 in Paducah. A lot of overflow was reported in places that don't normally flood near the Ballard County line. On the west side of Paducah, flash flooding of a creek damaged a small bridge, floated two vehicles, and entered an apartment.
June 2015LightningWoodlawn$20,000A house was struck by lightning in a neighborhood just southeast of the Paducah city limits. The resulting house fire caused extensive damage.
October 2025Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$3,000A tree was blown down onto power lines causing a power outage on Bullard Street in Reidland.
February 2018FloodWoodlawn-Several roads were closed due to backwater flooding along the Clarks River, which is a tributary of the Ohio River. Water was over Kentucky Highway 1255 (Bonds Road), Kentucky 131 near the Graves County line, Kentucky 787 near the Marshall County line, and Kentucky 284 between Reidland and Paducah.
May 2017FloodWoodlawn-Minor flooding occurred on the Ohio River. Parts of a riverfront park in Paducah and some low-lying farmland along the river was inundated.

Every storm recorded in McCracken 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
Farley0.3 miles24
Oakdale0.4 miles24
Tyler1.4 miles24
Hovekamp1.9 miles24
Riverview2.0 miles24
Epperson2.1 miles24
Littleville2.3 miles24
Reidland2.6 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507103. 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.

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.