Woodville, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Grahamville-Heath census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42053. The Survey maps it on the Heath quadrangle.

Woodville within McCracken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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.

1928 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
1932 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Heath quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Heath quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Woodville between 1999 and 2016, burning about 130 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/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 December 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 November 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 November 2008	Smoking	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	95 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OGDEN LANDING ROAD
5 October 2011	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIG BLUESTEM
5 October 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 October 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCracken County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodville in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodville	2 hurt, $200,000	A severe thunderstorm moving northeast from Ballard County clipped northwest McCracken County. The storm overturned and destroyed a mobile home, causing minor injuries to two of its occupants. Many outbuildings were damaged, roofs were blown off two barns, and some utility poles were snapped or blown over. Several residences sustained minor roof damage. The affected area in McCracken County was about one square mile.
November 2013	Tornado (EF2)	Woodville	1 hurt, $350,000	The tornado began very close to the Ballard County line. The most intense damage in McCracken County was rated EF-2 at a uranium enrichment plant just west of Grahamville. At that location, three metal roll-up doors on the main processing building were blown in. Some wall panels on the large processing building were blown out. The tops of three steel power transmission towers within the plant grounds were bent over. A few power lines were snapped. Cooling tower shrouds were blown off. Some siding on a cooling tower was damaged. One sport utility vehicle was shoved 30 yards into a ditch. An off-duty employee of the plant was seriously injured when tornado debris, including another car, was blown into his vehicle. Elsewhere in the county, an abandoned mobile home was demolished, though the undercarriage remained. Many houses had damage to shingles and siding. Some metal roofs were slightly damaged. A wooden fence was ripped from the ground. Chain link fences were blown over. Trees were uprooted or snapped off, some striking homes. A church foyer was destroyed. Road signs were bent. The average path width was 100 yards in McCracken County. The tornado continued east across the Ohio River into Massac County, Illinois, where it strengthened to EF-3 intensity. The total path length of this tornado was 42 miles. The parent supercell tracked from southeast Missouri across the Mississippi River through the Paducah area, then east to the Kentucky Lake area of western Kentucky.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodville	$100,000	A swath of damaging winds occurred in western McCracken County, from the Ballard County line east to the Paducah city limits. Two storage sheds were destroyed at a farm center on U.S. Route 60 at the Ballard County line. Dog kennels were blown across a field. A power pole was snapped. A few miles west of the Heath community, a 15-by-18 foot section of roof was blown off a church and into a road. A neighboring tobacco barn was destroyed, and shingles were blown off a house roof. Off Highway 358 a couple miles west of Grahamville, a major TVA electrical transmission line went down, along with four large wood electrical towers. An awning in front of a business was destroyed. Numerous tree limbs were blown across roads from the Ballard County line east to near Heath. A wind gust to 60 mph was measured at the National Weather Service office at Barkley Regional Airport. On the west side of the city of Paducah, sheds were blown across a road from a home improvement store. Winds remained strong across the rest of McCracken County, but just below severe levels. A gust to 56 mph was measured in Reidland.
April 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Woodville	$75,000	A brief EF-1 tornado struck just east of the Woodville community in far Western McCracken County, KY. The tornado moved parallel along the south side of Woodville Road. The most severe damage was to a house that had a portion of its roof removed. A couple more homes suffered facia and siding damage. About a dozen trees had large limbs downed. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodville	$50,000	Two vacant single-wide mobile homes were destroyed. Both were blown away from their foundations and overturned. Another mobile home sustained minor damage. A camper was blown a short distance into a boat. Numerous shingles were blown off a house. A flag pole was bent. A few trees were down. Peak winds were estimated near 95 MPH. A National Weather Service damage survey indicated the damage appeared to be caused by a gustnado, a shallow circulation that does not extend to the base of a thunderstorm. The damage pattern was convergent.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodville	$40,000	Across western McCracken County, a porch roof was blown off, speed limit signs were down, and tree limbs were down. A carport was wrapped around a tree. The damage was mostly north and west of Barkley Regional Airport.
May 2011	Flood	Woodville	$30,000	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodville	$10,000	A number of trees were blown down at several locations in the western part of the county. The control tower at Barkley Regional Airport in West Paducah measured a gust to 60 MPH. Only a few trees were uprooted in the Reidland area of the county.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodville	$7,000	A power pole was snapped, several trees were blown down, and live power lines were down. A roof was off a kennel.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodville	$5,000	Scattered areas of damage to tree limbs were reported in northern McCracken County.
February 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodville	$3,000	A few trees were blown down, blocking roads. Two of the trees were in western McCracken County, and another was in the city of Paducah.
April 2009	Hail	Woodville	-	The hail was reported on U.S. Highway 60 at the McCracken and Ballard County line.
June 2011	Hail	Woodville	-	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodville	-	no account filed

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cimota City	1.0 miles	16
Bayou Church (historical)	2.4 miles	16
Rossington	4.1 miles	19
West Future City	4.1 miles	16
Ceredo	4.5 miles	16
Heath	4.5 miles	16
Future City	4.5 miles	16
Lamont	4.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507127. 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.