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Yelvington, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Whitesville-Philpot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42355. It lies near Wolf Hill. The Survey maps it on the Maceo quadrangle. 437 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Yelvington within Daviess County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Yelvington between 2010 and 2013, burning about 12 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
Recreation and ceremony2

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
29 March 2013Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLD CAR
11 March 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daviess County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Yelvington: 3 producers. 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
Daviess County DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kapco DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rockport PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yelvington in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2012Thunderstorm WindYelvington$4,000Siding was blown off a house.
September 2018Tornado (EF1)Yelvington$3,000Peak winds in this half-mile long tornado were estimated near 95 mph. The tornado touched down midway between the small communities of Maceo and Yelvington. A few trees were snapped, and there was minor soffit damage to a home. The damage survey was based upon drone footage and other pictures.
April 2003HailYelvington$3,000no account filed
September 2023HailYelvington-Hail was at least one inch in diameter.
May 2012HailYelvington-no account filed
June 2006HailYelvington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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
Maceo1.5 miles16
Chestnut Grove (historical)2.5 miles18
Bethlehem (historical)2.5 miles16
Spice Knob2.6 miles16
Haywood Chapel (historical)3.6 miles18
Pates (historical)4.0 miles18
Mount Zion (historical)4.0 miles16
Scythia4.0 miles16

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 YelvingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691545The 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 507226. 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.